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The following articles have been tagged with "Zeit_online":

'Hoeneß can't preach water and drink wine'

Analysis & Opinion: 23 Apr 13
Uli Hoeneß is thought to have hidden millions of euros in Switzerland, safely out of sight of the German tax man. If guilty, the football legend will no longer be able to lead FC Bayern Munich, comments ZEIT ONLINE's Oliver Fritsch. READ »

Woman returns 8 years after shock deportation

Society: 3 Mar 13
A Kurdish woman whose deportation to Turkey in 2005 was denounced by many as inhumane returned to Germany on Sunday to be reunited with her husband and two daughters, whom she had not seen for eight years. READ »

'Europe will fail without a common narrative'

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Feb 13
Germany's president has presented a vision for Europe that fills a leadership void left by Chancellor Angela Merkel and could possibly even show the EU the way out of its current crisis, comments ZEIT ONLINE's Ludwig Greven. READ »

Thierse 'drags Berlin debate to a new low'

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Jan 13
With his intolerant comments about Swabian newcomers, long-time Berlin resident and former Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse has taken the debate about gentrification to a new low, argues ZEIT ONLINE's Christian Bangel. READ »

The high price of saving the euro

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Dec 11
Has Germany saved the euro or doomed the European Union? ZEIT ONLINE’s Matthias Krupa looks at the high political price of the crisis summit in Brussels. READ »

Marched down the aisle

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Nov 11
Thousands of forced marriages take place in Germany each year. Many involve German citizens but society continues to look the other way, comments Cigdem Akyol from ZEIT ONLINE. READ »

Eurobonds could stop the downward spiral

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Aug 11
The German government doesn't think eurobonds will help Europe out of its debt crisis, but it's high time Chancellor Merkel gave up her stubborn resistance to them. A commentary by Marcus Gatzke from ZEIT ONLINE. READ »

Germany’s imperfectly balanced reunification

Analysis & Opinion: 19 Apr 11
Germany's planned gigantic seesaw commemorating reunification perfectly symbolizes the country's failure to come to terms with its unity properly, says Christian Bangel of ZEIT ONLINE. READ »

Germany's cowardly foreign policy

Analysis & Opinion: 21 Mar 11
The German government’s decision not to participate in military action against Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi – primarily for domestic political reasons – is deeply irresponsible, argues Markus Horeld from ZEIT ONLINE. READ »

The education of Dr. Googleberg

Analysis & Opinion: 17 Feb 11
With Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg under suspicion of plagiarizing his doctoral dissertation, ZEIT ONLINE’s Dagny Lüdemann wonders whether it's a symptom of a broader malaise at German universities. READ »

2010: The year in review

National: 29 Dec 10
As 2011 prepares to kick off, The Local takes a look back at some of the stories that caught our attention during the past year in Germany. READ »

Westerwelle and the FDP: Unloved yet irreplaceable

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Dec 10
It's understandable that FDP's rank-and-file want to replace their beleaguered leader Guido Westerwelle. But a putsch ahead of state elections would only be counterproductive. An analysis by ZEIT ONLINE’s Michael Schlieben. READ »

Digitally desecrating Germany’s landscape

Analysis & Opinion: 4 Nov 10
With nearly a quarter of a million Germans opting out of Google’s Street View service, US author and journalist Jeff Jarvis laments the digital bombing of the country’s landscape. READ »

Nuclear power is only cheap for the industry

Analysis & Opinion: 27 Aug 10
The atomic energy industry is pushing to delay Germany’s phase-out of nuclear power. But Marcus Gatzke from ZEIT ONLINE warns doing so could hurt the country’s switch to renewable energy – and consumers’ pocketbooks. READ »

German angst alone cannot stop Google

Analysis & Opinion: 19 Aug 10
Google Street View is still harmless, says German consumer protection expert Falk Lüke, but that doesn’t mean the discussion surrounding it is unnecessary. Instead, we should be focused on creating international rules for online privacy. READ »

A Muslim Christian Democrat's crucifixion

Analysis & Opinion: 27 Apr 10
The Christian Democrats hoped making a Muslim woman a state minister would show how tolerant their party has become. But as ZEIT ONLINE's Christian Bangel writes, a debate over crucifixes in schools shows how much it hasn't. READ »

Germany's Turks don’t need Papa Erdoğan or Mutti Merkel

Analysis & Opinion: 31 Mar 10
The current debate about Turkish schools in Germany exposes how politicians in both Berlin and Ankara like to treat German Turks as if they were children caught in a nasty custody battle, writes Deniz Baspinar from Zeit Online. READ »

Social parasites with Swiss bank accounts

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Feb 10
The German government should have no qualms about buying stolen Swiss information on rich tax dodgers, argues Ludwig Greven from Zeit Online. READ »

Paying for info on tax dodgers is immoral

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Feb 10
Buying stolen Swiss information on rich tax dodgers is wrong and puts Germany on shaky moral ground, argues Kai Biermann from Zeit Online. READ »

Steinbach's halfhearted compromise

Analysis & Opinion: 5 Jan 10
Erika Steinbach will have little success trying to outwit those in the German government opposed to her joining a foundation for people displaced after World War II, argues Ludwig Greven from Zeit Online. READ »

Merkel’s stealth reform agenda

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Oct 09
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new centre-right coalition wants to avoid being stigmatised as a callous, neoliberal reform project. But Zeit Online’s Katharina Schuler argues it has already set Germany on the path for dramatic change. READ »

Germany's election campaign to nowhere

Analysis & Opinion: 19 Aug 09
A government car scandal, an industrial policy paper no one wants to accept responsibility for and plenty of noise: Katharina Schuler from Zeit Online believes German voters deserve a better election campaign. READ »

Flash mobs banned in Braunschweig

Society: 28 Jul 09
Tired of flash mobs holding gatherings in Braunschweig’s Schlossplatz square, the city says it is forbidding the social networking phenomenon, according to a report published Tuesday by the news site Zeit Online. READ »

Germany’s war of words in Afghanistan

Analysis & Opinion: 25 Jun 09
The German government refuses to admit it's fighting a war in Afghanistan. But simply relabeling dead soldiers is poor substitute for dealing with the military reality there, argues Katharina Schuler from Zeit Online. READ »

Germany cannot refuse Guantánamo inmates

Analysis & Opinion: 6 May 09
The United States has asked Berlin to accept Guantánamo Bay inmates. Some politicians are reluctant to do so, but Germany must help close this dark chapter for the West, argues Ludwig Greven from Zeit Online. READ »

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