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Two dead after German Christmas market attack

21.12.2024 20

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Lisa Haseldine

Notes on... / What carols owe to Martin Luther

20.12.2024 9

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Lisa Haseldine

Angela Merkel regrets nothing

Last night, nearly three years to the day since she handed over the reigns of power to Olaf Scholz, Angela Merkel appeared at London’s Royal...

05.12.2024 20

The Spectator

Lisa Haseldine

Ukraine will make the most of its new firepower

Overnight, the news of Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles on Russian soil has been sinking in. Reports suggest that Kyiv...

18.11.2024 6

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Lisa Haseldine

War in Ukraine / One phone call won’t make Putin listen to Scholz

This afternoon, for the first time in nearly two years, the German chancellor Olaf Scholz picked up the phone to speak with Russian president Vladimir...

15.11.2024 4

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Lisa Haseldine

Ukraine will be worried if Trump has called Putin

When Donald Trump won the US presidential election last Wednesday, one leader’s message of congratulation was conspicuously absent. It took the...

11.11.2024 6

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Lisa Haseldine

Olaf Scholz calls time on Germany’s traffic light coalition

Just as Germany, along with the rest of Europe, begins to process what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean, more instability is...

07.11.2024 8

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Lisa Haseldine

Why is Putin not congratulating Donald Trump?

It’s long been assumed that Donald Trump is Russian president Vladimir Putin’s preferred opposite number in Washington. So it might come as a...

06.11.2024 4

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Lisa Haseldine

Russian spies are intent on wreaking havoc in Germany

If ever the West needed confirmation that we have become firmly entrenched in a new Cold War with Russia, this month’s warnings from intelligence...

16.10.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

Without Navalny, Russia’s opposition is tearing itself apart

Since the death of Alexei Navalny in an Arctic penal colony in February, Russia’s opposition movement has found itself in disarray. Instead of...

08.10.2024 7

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Lisa Haseldine

How does the SPD solve a problem like Olaf Scholz?

Olaf Scholz can’t catch a break. The German chancellor started the week on a high after his SPD party won the state elections in Brandenburg by the...

28.09.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

Germany / Olaf Scholz has won a hollow victory in Brandenburg’s state elections

In what will surely come as a relief to the German chancellor Olaf Scholz, his SPD party has won this weekend’s state elections in Brandenburg....

23.09.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

Vladimir Kara-Murza: Putin must not be allowed to win in Ukraine

‘Whatever happens, Vladimir Putin must not be allowed to win the war in Ukraine’. For the first time since being released from a Russian prison in...

20.09.2024 20

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Lisa Haseldine

Why does Scholz want to speed up peace talks for Ukraine?

Is German chancellor Olaf Scholz giving in to pressure to reduce support for Ukraine and improve relations with Russia? Scholz declared during a...

09.09.2024 4

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Lisa Haseldine

The AfD is winning over Germany’s youth

‘We are the party of the youth!’ When the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party launched its state election campaign over the summer...

02.09.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

The AfD is set to win its first ever state election

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland party is set to make history and take control of at least one of Germany’s state parliaments for the...

01.09.2024 4

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Lisa Haseldine

Is Germany’s far right about to go mainstream?

‘We need to deport, deport, deport!’ Björn Höcke, leader of the Alternative für Deutschland in Thuringia, emphasises each word with a clenched...

29.08.2024 20

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Lisa Haseldine

Ukraine’s drone attack on Moscow piles the pressure on Putin

In the early hours of this morning, Ukraine hit Moscow with ‘one of the largest’ drone attacks against the Russian capital since the war began two...

21.08.2024 6

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Lisa Haseldine

Russia’s escalation warnings over Kursk betray Putin’s panic

As Ukrainian forces continue to gain ground in the Russian region of Kursk, the humiliation for Vladimir Putin is growing. Faced with a mounting...

13.08.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

Ukraine’s Kursk attack shows no signs of slowing down

It has been seven days since Ukraine began its attack on the Russian region of Kursk – with Ukrainian soldiers launching the first successful...

12.08.2024 8

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Lisa Haseldine

Russia / Ukraine’s Kursk offensive is a PR disaster for Putin

It’s four days into Ukraine’s surprise offensive in the Russian region of Kursk and Moscow is only just sending reinforcements to repel the...

09.08.2024 5

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Lisa Haseldine

Russia and the West agree largest prisoner swap since the Cold War

The Kremlin has released Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former marine Paul Whelan and British-Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza...

01.08.2024 4

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Lisa Haseldine

Inside the Lib Dems’ campaign to tear down the Blue Wall

‘We would not put in this effort if we weren’t the challengers, and we clearly are.’ Liberal Democrat candidate Paul Kohler is sitting on a park...

30.06.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

Terror attack / Who will Russia blame for the Dagestan shootings?

Twenty people have been killed – including 15 police officers and a priest – following two coordinated gun attacks in the southern Russian...

24.06.2024 9

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Lisa Haseldine

Olaf Scholz’s party suffers worst EU election defeat as AfD surges

The mood in Olaf Scholz’s SPD party headquarters in Berlin is despondent this morning. The German Chancellor’s party won just 13.9 per cent in the...

10.06.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

Olaf Scholz unveils Germany’s deportation plans

‘Anyone who threatens our freedom and disturbs our peace should be afraid.’ That was Olaf Scholz’s message today as he stood up in the Bundestag...

06.06.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

The European elections will test the AfD’s strength

As Olaf Scholz gathers alongside other European leaders on the beaches of Northern France tomorrow to commemorate 80 years since the allied invasion...

05.06.2024 8

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Lisa Haseldine

Real Southerners never liked Elvis

Cowboy boots are ubiquitous in Nashville – although not hats. ‘That’s Texas,’ one woman told us earnestly. Locals say, ‘y’all,’ ‘yes,...

22.05.2024 20

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Lisa Haseldine

Putin can’t hide how dependent he is on Beijing

16.05.2024 50

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Lisa Haseldine

Zelensky feels the pressure as Russian offensive intensifies

Volodymyr Zelensky this morning cancelled all of his upcoming foreign trips. He was scheduled to travel to Madrid on Friday to meet King Felipe VI....

15.05.2024 20

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Lisa Haseldine

Sergei Shoigu out as Russia’s defence minister

12.05.2024 50

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Lisa Haseldine

Putin replaces defence minister in cabinet shake up

12.05.2024 30

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Lisa Haseldine

Why won’t phone companies stop kids using social media?

When it comes to social media, parents find it difficult enough to keep up with their offspring’s online world. What hope, then, do governments and...

11.05.2024 40

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Lisa Haseldine

In Putin’s Russia, Victory Day is no longer about 1945

Stepping out onto Red Square for today’s Victory Day parade in Moscow, it was clear to see that Vladimir Putin was in a good mood. Arms swinging...

09.05.2024 20

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Lisa Haseldine

Putin’s next six years in power spell more repression for Russia

Amidst the golden splendour of the Kremlin’s Hall of the Order of St Andrew, Vladimir Putin was once again inaugurated as president of Russia this...

07.05.2024 20

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Lisa Haseldine

Germany’s AfD has become its own worst enemy

As the German AfD’s European election campaign kicks off tomorrow, the far-right party’s leadership could be forgiven for counting down to polling...

26.04.2024 20

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Lisa Haseldine

Sunak and Scholz gear up for an awkward meeting in Berlin

Rishi Sunak arrived in Poland today to announce a £500 million boost in aid to Ukraine, using the trip to Warsaw to also finally put a timeline on...

23.04.2024 8

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Lisa Haseldine

Is Georgia’s future with Europe, or Russia?

On Wednesday, Georgia’s government came one step closer to realising its desire to embed the country deeper within Russia’s sphere of influence. A...

19.04.2024 8

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Lisa Haseldine

Putin's prisoner / Time is ticking to save Vladimir Kara-Murza

A year ago today, the Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed for 25 years – the longest sentence handed down to a political prisoner in Russia...

17.04.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

Defence / Can conscription save Germany’s armed forces?

Could compulsory military service soon be reintroduced in Germany? Since becoming defence minister at the beginning of last year, Boris Pistorius has...

10.04.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

Russia / Why is Putin still blaming Ukraine for the Moscow terror attack?

In the fortnight since four Isis gunmen stormed Crocus City Hall in the Moscow suburbs, Vladimir Putin has done his best to dodge as much of the blame...

05.04.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

The blame game over the Moscow terror attack has begun

Who was behind last night’s terror attack in Moscow? A branch of the Islamic State terror group, Isis-K, has claimed responsibility and last night...

23.03.2024 8

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Lisa Haseldine

Gunmen open fire in Moscow concert hall

Just over two hours ago, gunmen opened fire at a music venue on the outskirts of Moscow in what the Russian foreign ministry has called a terrorist...

22.03.2024 20

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Lisa Haseldine

Putin crowns himself president of Russia again

As expected, following a three day ‘vote’, Vladimir Putin has once again crowned himself president of Russia. As of 9 a.m. Moscow time, according...

18.03.2024 10

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Lisa Haseldine

It’s time to declare Putin an illegitimate president

For the next three days, Russians are heading to the polls supposedly to choose the country’s next president. Except we already know, as do most...

15.03.2024 10

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