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Tom Nuttall

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Berlin bureau chief (again), the Economist. Formerly of Los Angeles, Brussels and London. Polycrisis veteran, music nut.

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1Nov 6, '24Home page of one of Germany's biggest weeklies right now221×4.6M37k3.6k2.2k
2Feb 14, '25The German press reports that JD Vance met with AfD co-leader Alice Weidel after his speech in Munich today. (Vance refused to meet Olaf Scholz, Germany's chancellor.)185×3.9M7.2k2.6k776
3Jun 10, '24Still two countries: how Germany voted. (Black=Union; blue=AfD).93.9×2M6.2k1.3k932
4Mar 3, '22Our new cover. No strapline, no flashes.81.3×053k9.5k429
5Jul 28, '24Can't believe I didn't know Folkestone holds an annual Kate Bush day where thousands of women convene on the harbour to dance to Wuthering Heights together70.9×1.5M19k2.2k1.5k
6Jun 2, '24Got chatting to two Finns in a Berlin bar last night. Asked them how it felt to be consistently ranked the happiest nation in the world. Their reply: "We don't trust the methodolog39×813k9.9k427446
7Feb 14, '25Blistering response by Boris Pistorius, Germany's defence minister, to JD Vance's speech at #MSC. "Democracy does not mean that a vociferous minority can decide what truth is...dem36.3×756k15k2.8k431
8Jun 30, '18Don't cry 4-3 Argentina33.9×018k5.8k26
9May 27, '24Macron's efforts to speak German to German audiences, involving long hours with private teachers and so on, are genuinely impressive.22.7×472k2.8k187518
11Mar 2, '25Potentally big news from Germany: the Union & SPD are reportedly discussing the creation of two huge off-books special funds, for defence & infrastructure. Sums close to 1 19.4×403k2k539246
12Feb 10, '25It's not a real German election campaign until a senior politician has to deny that they plagiarised their doctorate.17.4×361k6.3k310165
14May 2, '25Spot the difference14.3×299k72120052
15Oct 18, '23This is a useful thread for what appears to be the small minority of people on this website with a genuine interest in ascertaining the truth about last night's blast.13.4×279k92523357
16Dec 18, '24Fully 92% of Germans, including 75% of AfD voters (!), believe Syrian refugees who have found "regular" work should be permitted to stay in Germany, regardless of developments in S13.2×276k2.5k393333
17Oct 23, '19This clip is all over German and Austrian political Twitter this morning.13.2×06.5k2.4k101
18Mar 17, '22Zelensky delivers a difficult speech to the Bundestag, and MPs immediately, awkwardly move on to other business. If Scholz's Zeitenwende is to be worthy of the name, parliament wil12.4×08.4k1.2k95
19Jun 14, '24Whose idea was it to introduce the word "supermajority", a term with a specific meaning in lots of parliamentary democracies, to the political lexicon in Britain, where it does not11.7×244k6574714
20Jul 21, '24Extraordinary stat in this interview with the NYT editor - nearly 7% of American newspaper employees now work at the New York Times.11.1×230k1.2k326438
21Mar 4, '25CDU/CSU-SPD agreement: - Defence spending above 1% of GDP to be exempted from debt brake calculations - 500bn debt-fiannced special fund for infastructure - Easing of debt brake fo10.9×227k1.6k308166
22Jun 13, '24What a picture.10.2×212k1.6k165163
23Jun 25, '20This has been retweeted by Germans across the political spectrum, including a cabinet minister. It's genuinely the closest I've seen the country come to patriotism.9.8×05.8k1.3k96
24Sep 9, '24You could read Mario Draghi's 400-page report on EU competitiveness. Or you could read the 1,250-word summary he has written for us.9.7×203k1.9k4801k
25Feb 18, '25There really is no sugar-coating this. Deeply worrying, completely baffling, and in many respects almost indistinguishable from Kremlin propaganda.9.7×201k4.1k748137
26Mar 22, '22We interviewed Ukraine's foreign minister @DmytroKuleba: - Some EU countries have developed "sanctions fatigue" - Offensive/defensive weapons distinction is "artificial" - "not ove9.5×05.6k1.3k80
27Feb 27, '22For those with whiplash, some of the changes to German foreign & security policy in the last week: - de facto death of Nord Stream 2 - substantial arms deliveries to Ukraine, d9.5×05.8k1.1k168
28Feb 26, '22Ukraine's courage and resilience is almost unbearably moving.8.9×06.7k63829
29Feb 12, '25If Germany is more concerned about what @OlafScholz said at a private event ten days ago than to what @PeteHegseth has just said in Brussels, then we're really cooked.8.4×174k2.8k406116
30Apr 29, '24next-level drama queenery8.1×169k2.7k85337
32Feb 2, '25The majority of Germans7.2×149k2.5k125105
33Nov 6, '24Germany's government is not going to spend the day working out how to respond to this result, consulting with allies and demonstrating leadership within Europe. It's going to spend6.0×125k1.3k18158
34May 11, '17We interviewed Donald Trump. He tested our knowledge of econ-jargon.6.0×02.2k9871
35Dec 16, '21Just landed in London and no one asked for my carefully prepared test result, vaccine certificates or PLF form, presumably because this is not a "Papers, please" society.6.0×03.4k77619
36Mar 14, '22Nothing but respect for Germans' ability to turn everything, just everything, into fuel for the Tempolimit debate.5.8×04.4k33936
37Jul 28, '16CNN just now on Hillary's speech tonight: "To use a soccer analogy...if you don't knock it out of the park, you're in trouble."5.7×01.1k8540
38Apr 26, '25Lucky they avoided getting photo-bombed by Söder5.4×112k4.3k13050
39Nov 6, '24Macron called an unnecessary election; Scholz is delaying a necessary one.5.4×111k1.1k18641
40Feb 24, '22The head of the German army appears to have posted an extraordinary comment on LinkedIn this morning. DeepL translation below.5.3×02.2k872143
41May 12, '21Germany's ruling conservatives have hoisted the Israeli flag outside party HQ in Berlin, to mark their solidarity with the country over the latest conflagration.5.1×03.1k59019
42Mar 27, '22Some choice words for Germany in our interview with @ZelenskyyUa: "They are looking at the situation through the prism of the economy. They help out at times...The Germans are maki4.9×03.1k59053
43Dec 16, '24The outside world's catastrophising insistence on characterising Germany's current politics as in "crisis", "turmoil", "turbulence" etc is getting rather aggravating. Guys we're li4.6×96k1k12454
44Aug 13, '24You may not like it, but this is what peak German economic analysis looks like.4.4×92k1.3k10478
45Jan 10, '22Madame Chancellor, what feelings do you associate with Germany? Merkel - “Well-sealed windows! No other country can build such well-sealed and beautiful windows. " (Bild, 2004)4.3×02.5k315151
46Dec 20, '20Just landed at Berlin airport on last flight from UK. Federal police triaging between German citizens and the rest of us. Curious to see what happens next as we're held at passport3.9×01.7k488107
47Feb 26, '22For your next trick, Germany, how about leaving those last three nuclear power stations open?3.8×02.9k2628
48May 16, '19Useful.3.7×01.8k64525
49Mar 22, '20Flattening the curve? The rate of new confirmed cases in Austria, which has implemented one of the toughest lockdowns in Europe, has been steadily declining; 15% in last 24 hours. 3.6×01.4k82724
50May 9, '20What a chart. Shame Russia wasn't polled.3.5×01.6k53447
51May 29, '17Wow: Macron ripping RT and Sputnik to shreds as Putin stands by his side at joint presser.3.4×01.7k5420
52Feb 17, '25In polling terms, there's basically only one story of Germany's election campaign: the @dieLinke surge3.2×68k7144331
53Feb 28, '22The German government has published an English translation of Olaf Scholz's "Zeitenwende" (turning-point/new era) speech. Essential reading for anyone interested in the extraordina3.0×01.2k518207
54Jun 3, '23This rather unScholz-like speech was given last night in Brandenburg. The video omits perhaps the spiciest line: "Dear screamers, Putin is the warmonger you'd be shouting at here i3.0×62k59210728
55Sep 27, '21This is the constituency map Germans are waking up to. SPD dominance in the north, conservatives in the industrial south, dots of Green in some cities, and a very AfD-blue Saxony a3.0×01.2k546100
56Dec 2, '21And off she goes. #abschied3.0×02k22717
57May 25, '25If I was a German voter who plumped for the CDU because Merz repeatedly said that he would take a tougher line on Putin than Scholz would, I might be getting rather impatient by no2.9×59k1.1k11121
58Mar 23, '20Angela Merkel's coronavirus test is negative.2.8×01.6k3301
61Feb 23, '22Berlin has lit up the Brandenburg Gate in Ukraine's colours.2.7×01.5k34614
62Nov 18, '21Useful to remind oneself from time to time of Germany's surprisingly bad record on social mobility.2.6×01.4k324118
63Dec 6, '21How politics works, Bavarian edition.2.6×02k11725
64Jul 7, '22Timing is everything2.6×01.7k27719
65Dec 23, '24I had wondered how the AfD might seek to exploit the murderous acts of a man who explicitly expressed his affinity with the party. The answer: like the conspiracy-mongerers polluti2.5×53k75618338
66Mar 1, '22The German press is reporting that four members of Gerhard Schröder's private office have resigned in disgust at the ex-chancellor's unwillingness comprehensively to distance himse2.3×01.2k33713
67Mar 3, '21BOOM. Fidesz quits the EPP, after the centre-right group amends its rules to make ejection easier. Orban jumps before he is pushed.2.2×078437414
68Mar 23, '21Germany's "hard Easter lockdown" amounts to...closing supermarkets for two days and begging people not to go on holiday? Even the personal contact rules are laxer than they were a 2.2×01.4k2415
69Feb 4, '22No one can accuse the man of lacking comic timing.2.2×01.4k21815
70Mar 1, '2278% of Germans agree with the decision to raise defence spending by €100bn. Not words any Germany correspondent would ever expect to find themselves writing...1.9×01.1k24722
71Dec 6, '20Fifty years ago today, Willy Brandt fell to his knees before the memorial to the victims of the 1943 ghetto uprising in Warsaw. One of the most extraordinary pictures in German his1.9×01.1k24028
72Feb 28, '22Even a stopped clock is right more often than this guy.1.8×01.1k2206
74Aug 29, '20JFK, Berlin, 1963: Ich bin ein Berliner JFK's nephew, Berlin, 2020: Ich bin ein antivax crank1.7×097226011
76Mar 3, '21Remember that Austrian foreign minister who took a bop with Putin at her wedding? Now nominated to Rosneft's board.1.7×069428726
77Oct 15, '21Spiegel cover editors having a very normal one this week1.6×01k13026
78Mar 27, '20Three G7 leaders - Merkel, Trudeau, and now Johnson - running their respective countries while quarantined.1.6×07183313
79Mar 24, '20RIP the great, great Uderzo.1.6×08092862
80Jan 19, '19The Bavarian CSU, sister party to Merkel's CDU, has just elected the guy on the right to take over from the guy on the left as party leader.1.6×07372793
82Feb 14, '20Best exchange at #MSC2020 today: Finnish minister enthusiastically introduced as representative of "world's happiest nation". Finnish minister: "If that's true, I'd hate to see the1.5×09092116
83Mar 4, '21Germany's new rules on lockdown easing are mind-bendingly complex, see below. But the nub of it is that Germany is easing *when cases are rising*, justified supposedly by a mysteri1.5×070818323
84Jul 9, '22This extraordinary story is yet more evidence that anyone involved at any point in abetting Boris Johnson's political career ought to wear it as a badge of shame.1.5×07382596
85Oct 20, '19Given that Tusk accepted the letter, signed or not, as a legitimate extension request, we should be spending a) less time worrying about the performative side letters b) more time 1.4×08352157
87Jun 23, '22What Putin has achieved this year: ✅️Germany reinvents security policy ✅️Sweden + Finland apply to NATO ✅️Denmark ends EU defence opt out ✅️Ukraine and Moldova obtain EU candidacy 1.3×078716212
88Mar 28, '19The SPD has unveiled another election poster.1.3×06062175
89May 18, '20France, Germany, Italy and Spain all singing from the same page. When was the last time that happened?1.2×06491816
90Aug 13, '21Why would you ask the head of the world's most valuable EV company if hydrogen is the future of cars?1.2×07829414
91Feb 21, '22This is all Lenin's fault1.2×07248915
92Mar 22, '21It's March 2021, a year into a global pandemic. With no end to the lockdown in sight, and vaccination and testing in disarray, Germany's most senior politicians are arguing vicious1.1×07111265
93Sep 9, '21What on earth is going on at the Konrad Adenauer Haus?1.1×0732928
94Apr 26, '20Off to the park. Will be back later to tweet my fury at all the people in the park.1.1×0776962
96Feb 27, '22Baerbock now speaking: "A few weeks ago I said on arms exports that an "about turn" would change when the moment comes - and it has now come. We carried out diplomacy as long as we1.0×06441338
97Feb 27, '22Scholz speaking now: "February 24th marked a change in the history of our continent... The world after this attack is not the same as the world before it."1.0×061513010
98Feb 27, '22Losing count of the number of things we thought were impossible which in fact have turned out to be extremely possible.1.0×06749012
99Aug 23, '20I went to the Südtirol and all I got was this lousy Windows 10 screensaver.0.9×06543212
100Aug 16, '21Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think we've heard a single word from Merkel, or her spokesman, on Afghanistan in the last few days.0.8×0616503

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