LUTZ KLEINWÄCHTER The neoconservative "tipping point" plunges Germany into a long-term multiple crisis. The results of the peace policy, the limitation of arms, the economic and social stability and the ecological restructuring of society go back decades.

Member states of the European Union (EU) have joined a proposal by the German government and France to expand sanctions against the Iranian leadership and state organizations in the Islamic Republic. For the first time, the so-called "morality police" will be included in the EU sanctions list.

EUGENIO GARCÍA GASCÓN Being surprised by the irruption of the extreme right is now a thing of the past. The parties of that current, including those with Nazi sympathies, are abandoning the extra-parliamentary or parliamentary margins to become central and uncomplexed players in countries that until now were liberal.