Why the Right should make its peace with the State

It is not so much like a parent or a nanny as a brother. Not Big Brother, to be sure, but Little Brother – to be treated both with sibling rivalry and understated love.

Germany’s Christian Democrats must contend with a split on the right

The rise of AfD poses a strategic challenge to the CDU: try to re-unite the right and lose voters to the left, or stick to Merkel’s guns and cede territory to an insurgent new force?

Profile: Germany – and its future relationship with the EU

The first in a series of three articles on European countries and institutions – and their impact on Cameron’s renegotiation.

Germans bearing gifts

Syriza’s breakthrough looks to ramp up the Great Euro Game of destitution and extremism. Here’s what Cameron should do post-May if still in office.

As Cameron meets Merkel, a list of British characteristics that baffle the Germans

It is important not to fall in to the error of imagining the two countries to be more similar than they really are.

Alistair Burt MP: The strange silence of British politicians over Merkel’s confrontation of extremism

Why have our leaders not echoed her condemnation of it?

Cameron, victim of Merkel’s problems…

…and architect of some of his own. What will become of the renegotiation now?

England and Germany – Strange Meeting

Were it not for our differences over the EU, the country whose team won the World Cup yesterday could be our closest allies in Europe.

Heresy of the week: Europhiles should welcome the AfD’s membership of the ECR

The only reason why David Cameron directed Tory MEPs to vote against the AfD is because Angela Merkel told him to

Welcome, Alternative für Deutschland

Today’s ECR decision is a stark reminder of the gap that separates the Christian Democrat and Conservative visions of Europe.

Conservatives set to become third largest group in the European Parliament

Eurosceptics are used to being warned of the danger of being “isolated” in Europe. Increasingly they are working together.

Why the Conservatives and the Alternative für Deutschland should join forces

Tory MEPs could well decide later today to defy Angela Merkel – and form an alliance with Germany’s anti-euro party

UKIP Derangement Disorder – German style

In an era where ‘anti-system’ parties of various kinds are challenging the political establishment, we need an objective means of distinguishing between them

An alliance with AfD in the European Parliament shouldn’t be ruled out

Merkel would be annoyed, but Germany’s new Euro-sceptic party is painfully respectable and would make a suitable partner for the Tories.

What does the German election result mean for Cameron’s EU renegotiation?

The new anti-Euro party, the AfD, fell just short of the 5 per cent threshold required to secure Bundestag seats. Without eurosceptic pressure, Merkel might well simply leave Cameron flapping in the wind.