- Michael Birnbaum
- Correspondent
Michael Birnbaum became The Washington Post’s Berlin correspondent in January 2011, after two-and-a-half years of covering education for the newspaper from Washington. He has covered the Arab Spring from Libya, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East. He has also worked at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Birnbaum has a degree in German history. Birnbaum has a degree in German history from Yale University. He grew up in Chicago.
Geithners of Germany: ‘We have another mentality’
Town looks on its native grandson, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, with pride and confusion.
Germany refocuses on neo-Nazi threat
After 9/11 shifted focus to Islamic terrorism, a string of killings returns attention to right-wing extremism.
For Greece, privatization a tough bet
The government’s stake in a mountaintop casino illustrates its challenge in selling off properties to fix its financial problems.
In France, Hollande makes wealthiest pay
Socialist president makes good on a campaign pledge to raise tax rates for the wealthiest to 75 percent.
- Central Bank chief vows to fight for euro
- Renewed Spanish economic fears drive down global stock markets
- Unlike its struggling neighbors, Germany takes a slow and steady stance on the euro crisis
- Greece in hard spot as debt payment looms and European doubts grow
- Checkpoint Charlie: Through a correspondent’s eyes
- At Checkpoint Charlie, a battle over visions
- Europe, China lower rates in urgent effort to spur recovery
- Germany offers vision of federalism for the European Union
