Panorama

Germany boasts of its democracy, its freedom and its open culture of discussion. But behind this facade, a different climate is growing - cold, suspicious, controlling. Where the word was once considered a weapon of thought, today it is important... [...]

Driving in Germany is no longer an expression of individual freedom, but a gauntlet run through a fine-meshed network of rules, bans and surveillance. At every step, speed limits, traffic cameras, mobile radar devices, and fines are lurking. Officially serves... [...]

It is hard to believe how deep the gap between civil servants and collective bargaining employees in the public sector and in the private sector is now diverging. While in many cases the civil service is regularly and... [...]

In a country that likes to present itself as a model boy of technocratic efficiency and transparency in the rule of the law, a different picture emerges on the motorways - one of systematic deception, administrative arbitrariness and fiscal opportunism. What officially... [...]

The Bundeswehr needs transport planes, which is undeniable. But how she procures them is a textbook example of how bureaucracy, industrial interests and political backing have jointly created a system that does not reward efficiency, but prevents it. Where pragmatism... [...]

The prices for bread, milk, meat, fruit and vegetables are constantly increasing - and with them the anger. Purchasing, once routine, has become a financial review today. Every cash register becomes the place of humiliation, at... [...]