"Jews in Germany are doing well, they are listened to,“ says political scientist David Ranan. Compared to Muslims, they seem to be a preferred minority, he said. We examined the difficult subject of anti-Semitism in modern Germany with David Ranan.

Lawyer and imam Seyran Ates founded the liberal Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque in Berlin. Men and women and Muslims of different orientations can pray there together. But Ates has received thousands of hate mails and death threats. She was fortunate to survive an attack in 1984, but has continued to fight for human rights and the rights of women. What makes her so courageous?

Germany's 'NSU trial' is coming to an end. It has been one of the longest criminal trials in German history. Neo-Nazis were accused of killing nine men with Turkish or Greek backgrounds, as well as a German policewoman. What has the trial meant for the families of the victims? Mehmet Daimagüler answers those questions in the DW Interview.

“We are living in a political moment in which nationalism, protectionism, and withdrawal have become a great temptation,” says the head of the United Nations Development Programme, Achim Steiner. On DW Interview, he praised Germany’s role in the refugee crisis.

“National identity is certainly the least important factor when it comes to building a democratic Europe,” says German Book Prize Winner Robert Menasse in the Interview: “Given all that we know from history concerning the major crimes committed in the name of the nation, the very concept has surely been discredited."

“Europe can only survive if Germany and France take the reins together,” said SPD politician Klaus von Dohnányi during an interview with DW. The former Mayor of Hamburg added “Europe will not make any progress until France understands the opportunity it has with Germany.”

“Integration is always a two-way matter,” says Stephan Mayer in the DW Interview. “Migrants are welcome if they are refugees or seeking asylum and accept that Germany is a country shaped by humanism and Christianity,” added the Deputy Minister in the German Interior Ministry.

"Every Turkish media outlet has desks belonging to jailed colleagues" says Christian Mihr of the German branch of Reporters Without Borders. Deutsche Welle spoke to him about press freedom and independence, which are under threat in many parts of the world, including Europe and Germany.

"Men like Presidents Erdogan, Putin and Trump are rapidly destroying the peaceful order which we have constructed following two world wars." That is the warning from German Green politician Agnieszka Brugger. She told DW she is disturbed by the arms race: "Ultimately we will not have more security - instead everyone will be less secure."

"Men like Presidents Erdogan, Putin and Trump are rapidly destroying the peaceful order which we have constructed following two world wars." That is the warning from German Green politician Agnieszka Brugger. She told DW she is disturbed by the arms race: "Ultimately we will not have more security - instead everyone will be less secure."