Based in Berlin, Siobhán Dowling covers German and European affairs.
Dowling has lived in Germany for many years and worked as an editor and journalist at Spiegel International from 2005 to 2011. She has written for many publications, including The Guardian, The Observer, CNBC Business Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, S Magazine, Ireland’s Sunday Business Post and the Irish Times website.
Dowling grew up in Ireland, and studied History in Dublin, Paris and Oxford.
This week’s Berlin Film Festival celebrates German film in exile.
Merging Europe’s Airbus maker EADS and Britain’s BAE would create a defense giant. But getting governments and other shareholders to agree to the deal is proving difficult.
A Cold War drama about East Germany has romance, intrigue and the Stasi as the bad guys: all the elements for a successful movie export.
Germany’s constitutional court is set to rule on the constitutionality of the financial bailout fund this week. A thumbs-down would plunge the EU into turmoil.
A decade on Germans are still divided about whether a welfare and labor overhaul that helped transform their once ailing economy was more shock or therapy.
The Greek prime minister has asked Germany for more time to implement reforms as the window to save the euro shrinks.
Allowing prices to rise could help ease the euro crisis, but Germans just aren’t buying it.
The Bundeswehr is making itself more attractive to women. Or trying, at least.
The media echo chamber hypes Hamelin’s latest rodent ‘plague’
Forget debt. Europe has a new big problem: the insurmountable differences between Merkel and Hollande.