Newsroom
Merkel’s 16 years of tactical drift
Angela Merkel is “fundamentally an optimist”, she tells Der Spiegel magazine in her first major interview since leaving office. One wonders why.
Month: November 2024
The Australian
Lessons for Australia in NZ’s polarising Treaty debate
For decades, Australian advocates for indigenous reconciliation have pointed to New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi as a model. Where Australia lacks a foundational agreement with its First Nations peoples, New Zealand has had one since 1840.
Insights
My strange German addictions
One really ought to seek professional help for following German politics from Wellington.
Newsroom
Germany’s traffic light coalition gets stuck on red
It all began with a selfie. Four beaming politicians captured their own optimism in the late German autumn of 2021. Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck of the Greens, Christian Lindner and Volker Wissing from the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) projected unity and hope for Germany’s first three-party coalition since the 1950s.
Insights
Trump’s victory: Golden age or fiscal reckoning?
In his victory speech, Donald Trump promised Americans a new “golden age”. While he had the numbers to win the election, the economic realities he faces will make delivering on his promise challenging.
The Australian
NZ deepens ties with Delhi – it’s about time
When New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters met his Indian counterpart Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Australia this week, some New Zealand journalists were puzzled. Why would bilateral talks happen in a third country?