One of 83 Million
Last week, two sports figures offered very different answers to a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to stand with your country? In Washington, Capitals hockey legend Alexander Ovechkin …
Change at All Costs
Election Impressions from Saxony-Anhalt At 5:59 pm on Sunday, September 6, the anticipation in the whimsical restaurant tucked inside Magdeburg’s historic Millennium Tower was palpable. With all screens turned to …
The Unloved Chancellor
Following the results of the recent Landtag elections in Saxony-Anhalt, the press is already preparing Friedrich Merz’s political obituary. While he may be responsible for some of the discontent and …
New Rules of the Game in the Pharmaceutical Market
Austerity measures in the German healthcare system and the new U.S. pricing regime The national and international rules of the game have changed for the German pharmaceutical industry. At the …
AGI Profiles: Kai Wegner
Mayor of Berlin Kai Wegner, Berlin’s first conservative mayor in twenty-two years, initially emerged as the figure who could restore the Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) position in Berlin. Yet after …
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Tereza Novotná, DAAD/AGI Research Fellow
AGI is pleased to welcome Dr. Tereza Novotná as a DAAD/AGI Research Fellow in fall 2026. She is a Senior Affiliate Researcher at the Center for European Integration at Freie …
The Language of Eastern Resentment
Of the three eastern German states I was responsible for as U.S. Consul General in Leipzig, Saxony-Anhalt always struck me as perhaps the most distinctly eastern. It was also a …
He Inherited Freedom. Does He Believe It Is His?
At the risk of dating myself, I remember a very different mood among young people in post-communist Europe. I was a student in Prague in 1994, five years after the …
AGI Profiles: Alois Rainer
Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Regional Identity Alois Rainer is a member of the Bundestag from Straubing, Bavaria, and serves as Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Regional Identity (Bundesminister für …
German Reforms: Progress Ahead
From stagnation to mini-boom No other major economy has fared as badly as Germany in the last few years. In 2025, real GDP surpassed its pre-pandemic level of 2019 by …
“Dear Occupants of Dohrmannstrasse 1”
A House, a Stream, and Two Telephones Looking back, Gary Sternberg could not believe he did it. He simply had been compelled to do so. On August 5, 2019, he …
One Year Later, Can the Turnberry Agreement Hold?
Just shy of a year ago, on August 21, 2025, the United States and the European Union announced their Framework on an Agreement on Reciprocal, Fair, and Balanced Trade that …
AGI Profiles: Kristin Brinker
Member of the Berlin House of Representatives; AfD State Chairwoman in Berlin The outcome of Berlin’s September 20, 2026, election is far from clear. Polling remains volatile, with the positions …
Watching Ceuta, Thinking About Magdeburg
What Spain’s Border Tells Us About Eastern Germany In the last week of July, tens of thousands of people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Spain’s Interior …
