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Katja Hoyer

The Spectator

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Germans no longer feel safe after these horrific crimes

Germans no longer feel safe after these horrific crimes
23.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer

Alice Weidel is the presentable face of the AfD. And the one its opponents should fear the most

Alice Weidel is the presentable face of the AfD. And the one its opponents should fear the most
23.01.2025 40

The Guardian

Katja Hoyer

Why German politicians fear Musk’s AfD interview

Why German politicians fear Musk’s AfD interview
10.01.2025 5

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer

Why Germans love Dinner for One

On his first state visit to Germany as monarch last year, King Charles III cracked a joke only Germans would find funny. Speaking in front of...

31.12.2024 10

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer

How the Magdeburg Christmas market attack will change Germany

More than 200 people were injured and at least five lost their lives after a man ploughed a car into crowds at a Christmas market in the German...

21.12.2024 5

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer

Berlin / German politics is a mess

The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in parliament yesterday. It’s almost certain now that Germans will head to the polls for...

17.12.2024 3

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer

Germany / Olaf Scholz’s dreams of election victory are wishful thinking

Three years ago today, Olaf Scholz was sworn in as Germany’s chancellor. He had narrowly won the election by presenting himself as Angela...

08.12.2024 2

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer

Much ado about nothing / Germany and the fuss over the ‘idiot’s apostrophe’

‘Now it’s official,’ the German press lamented, ‘the idiot’s apostrophe is correct.’ The Council for German Orthography, the body that...

12.10.2024 60

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer

Banning Germany’s AfD won’t make it disappear

The opening of a regional parliament doesn’t usually make for edge-of-the-seat politics. But in the German state of Thuringia, the first session...

29.09.2024 10

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer

Borders / Germany’s immigration crackdown will heap pressure on Brussels

In a drastic move to curb illegal immigration, the German government has announced that it will tighten controls on its borders. Long-term measures...

11.09.2024 10

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer

Cold war / The remarkable success of the Allied occupation of Germany

‘We came as adversaries, we stayed as allies, and we leave as friends,’ British prime minister John Major told crowds in Berlin on 8 September...

08.09.2024 4

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer

There’s only one way to keep Germany’s far-right AfD at bay. Address the concerns it exploits

“We’re all waiting with bated breath. This is a fateful election,” a friend from Leipzig told me on Sunday. It was polling day in her state of...

03.09.2024 30

The Guardian

Katja Hoyer

Olaf Scholz’s immigration quagmire

Shock quickly turned to anger in Germany when a Syrian asylum seeker was arrested for the brutal knife attack in the city of Solingen last weekend....

30.08.2024 1

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer

Has Germany run out of money to give to Ukraine?

Germany is Ukraine’s biggest military donor in Europe. On paper, it appears determined to ensure that Vladimir Putin’s act of aggression does not...

21.08.2024 1

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer

Germany will regret cutting Ukraine aid

It wasn’t so long ago that the German chancellor Olaf Scholz tried to convince fellow European leaders to do more to help Ukraine. Wherever he...

20.07.2024 1

The Spectator

Katja Hoyer