The former foreign minister, who brought the Greens into government, points out that Europe must prepare for the end of American protection: ‘We’ll see if NATO survives’
European nationalist parties were celebrating the White House’s support just months ago. But the war in Iran and the US president’s erratic behavior now risk turning him into a liability
Veteran historians such as Winkler, Aly, and Longerich address in their new books ‘the question of all questions, about the avoidability of the National Socialist dictatorship’
The European reaction ranges from relief that defense is being taken seriously to fear that increased spending will destabilize the EU
The Munich Conference highlights Europe’s willingness to deepen coordination in both nuclear and conventional defense
Distrust toward Washington — and its perception as a threat — is rising worldwide, according to a survey released by the Bavarian city’s Security Conference
Touching on daydreaming, field research and an oppressive family reality, artist Ed Alcock used photos, drawings and documents to reconstruct the story of his great-uncle Kendon and life in Horden, a mining town in the north of England nestled in one of the poorest areas of Europe
The Greenland crisis has boosted support for the Social Democrat, who has become one of Europe’s leading figures pushing back against the US president
The most pro-American corner of Germany faces a potential rupture following Trump’s threats against Europe and Greenland: ‘He has caused a lot of damage’
In ‘a world on the brink of collapse,’ Danes sense threats from the East in Bornholm and from the West via Washington
Amid Washington’s push to control an island that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, EL PAÍS reviews six possible scenarios: from a military attack to an agreement
Copenhagen’s strategy is to seek dialogue with members of the Trump administration it considers to be more pragmatic
The German chancellor, despite being unpopular at home, is pushing international initiatives as the French president loses ground
The German far right, leading in several polls, is coming in from the cold with the support of Washington’s new strategic document
From the war in Ukraine to the Middle East and Sudan, international justice is suffering its biggest crisis since the advances of the 1990s
EL PAÍS visits Hans Frank’s son on the 80th anniversary of the trials that ended with the death sentence for the so-called ‘Butcher of Poland’ and other Third Reich leaders
Henrik Lenkeit, a pastor and life coach living in the south of the country, discovered a year ago that his grandmother was the mistress of the head of the SS in Hitler’s Germany, a revelation that changed his life
The coalition led by the Christian Democrat Merz faces accusations of opening the door to the international legitimization of the Islamist regime, which Germany and its allies fought for two decades
Spain and France justify enshrining the right to abortion in their Constitutions as a safeguard against a ‘reactionary’ wave that could roll back achievements
In the area of Poland bordering Ukraine and Belarus, with a long history of wars and destruction, the Russian threat is a reality
The incursion of Russian drones represents the most tense episode between Europe and the Kremlin in decades
The rhetoric and concepts in Hitler’s 1925 collection of essays continue to resonate in an increasingly polarized world
A speech by the author of ‘Radical Universalism’ at the Buchenwald camp was cancelled in April due to pressure from the Israeli embassy. Now Boehm reflects on the incident and the conflict in the Middle East
A Bolivian diplomat who translated ‘Mein Kampf’ brought up the Spanish dictator’s origins with the Third Reich. ‘Further inquiries will be made in this direction,’ says a document found by historian Marc Navarro
The grieving process for the possible loss of Washington’s protective power has begun. ‘Our interest is to keep the Americans in Europe,’ says a prominent Christian Democrat
The former GDR, a stronghold of the AfD, and Vienna, where the extremists won in September, avoided taking responsibility for Nazi crimes as West Germany did
The final results spare the CDU from having to negotiate a three-party coalition with the Greens to leave out the far-right AfD, which came in second. The future chancellor says it is paramount to work on Europe’s ‘independence’ from the US