How Germany, like other countries in the West, can avoid sweeping judgments and take a clear-eyed approach to a complex reality.
Author: Giovanni di Lorenzo
Giovanni di Lorenzo was born in Stockholm in 1959. He took his first steps into the media world at the local newspaper “Neue Presse” in Hanover. Since then he has worked as a reporter and head of the “Die Seite Drei” department at the newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. In 1999 he began working as editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Der Tagesspiegel”. In 2004 he started as editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine “DIE ZEIT” and in 2019 he was appointed president of the editors-in-chief of the entire publishing “DIE ZEIT” publishing house.
Trump’s victory is not some unforeseen accident. Europe should have been preparing for this. It didn’t. The actions we take now are vital for the future of democracy and the free world, writes Giovanni di Lorenzo, Die Zeit‘s editor-in-chief.