“’It does feel at times like Germany is trying very hard to protect itself from acknowledging the huge transformational shifts that have taken place,’ says Julianne Smith, a former foreign policy adviser to US vice-president Joe Biden and currently a fellow with the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. ‘There is a lot of whistling past the graveyard in this city. People are constantly talking about the parameters of a world that no longer exists…'”

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