With a new term for Merkel, Germany and Europe can breathe a sigh of relief.

Once a haven for other Africans, the country’s economic crisis has soured public opinion on foreigners.

Decades after Apartheid, violence remains an unresolved obstacle to the country’s success.

South Africa’s clean government activists have prevailed against the former president, but it will take time to undo his damage.

As Germany and Italy decide the shape of their future governments, the EU is making slow progress. It is abandoning lofty schemes and determined to focus on people’s real problems.

Italian politicians warning against “Germany-type problems” in forming a government after the next election are a truly striking moment of European integration – although not a particularly welcome one.

For all the emphasis on pursuing Germany’s “national interest,” the planned new pipeline undermines the EU, Germany itself and German influence in Europe.

Why is the UK’s Jeremy Corbyn now in favor of a Customs Union with the EU?

The Zuma era is finally over. What a mess he left behind.

A rapidly approaching emergency in Cape Town threatens to spill over.