Judy Asks: Is Merkel Losing Europe?

A selection of experts in Europe answer this question from Judy Dempsey.

+ Cornelius Adebahr: Associate in Carnegie’s Europe Program
+ Noah Barkin: Reuters bureau chief for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
+ Marta Dassù: Editor in chief of Aspenia and senior director for European affairs at the Aspen Institute
+ Martin Ehl: Journalist with Czech daily Hospodářské noviny
Fredrik ErixonDirector of the European Centre for International Political Economy
+ Roland Freudenstein: Policy director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies
+ Ulrike Guérot: Founder and director of the European Democracy Lab at the European School of Governance in Berlin
+ Stefan Lehne: Visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe
+ Gianni Riotta: Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
+ Ulrich Speck: Senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy
+ Stephen Szabo: Executive director of the Transatlantic Academy
+ Bernd Ulrich: Deputy editor of Die Zeit

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Germans debate responsibility for sexual assaults http://www.europeansources.info/record/germans-debate-responsibility-for-sexual-assaults/

ESO: Background information: Merkel pressured by own camp to change course on refugees / Berlin and Vienna try to put brakes on refugee influx http://www.europeansources.info/record/merkel-pressured-by-own-camp-to-change-course-on-refugees-berlin-and-vienna-try-to-put-brakes-on-refugee-influx/

ESO: Background information: 10 years in charge: A portrait of Angela Merkel http://www.europeansources.info/record/10-years-in-charge-a-portrait-of-angela-merkel/

ESO: Background information: Merkel after Paris http://www.europeansources.info/record/merkel-after-paris/

Spiegel Online International, 19.01.16: Merkel's Last Stand? Chancellor Running Out of Time on Refugee Issue http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/critique-of-merkel-on-refugee-issue-deepens-a-1072549.html

Carnegie Europe: Strategic Europe, 21.01.16: Merkel, Isolated and With No Plan B http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=62530

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