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Philip Oltermann

Philip Oltermann

Philip Oltermann (b. 1981) is a German journalist. Based in the UK since 1996, he is deputy editor of the Guardian’s Comment is free. His book Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters will be published by Faber & Faber in February 2012.

Updated: 18 January 2017

By Philip Oltermann

  • European Union: Prisoners of the Eurobabel

    Translation within the EU is a laborious and costly business. So why not save billions and make English the Union’s official language? Unfortunately, the price would be a loss of democracy and integration, not to mention a lot of angry Frenchmen.
    29 April 2013 – The Guardian (London) 231
  • Debate: Let’s give EU’s Nobel money to Erasmus

    For its Eramus student exchange programme alone, the EU deserves its Nobel Prize, for fomenting trans-national love-making and the creation of true Europeans.
    15 October 2012 – The Guardian (London) 48
  • Debate: The Germans, workaholics no more

    Many countries, including Britain, look up to the Germans as a hard-working people. But such qualities belong to the distant past, points out a Guardian columnist.
    21 March 2012 – The Guardian (London) 50
  • Debate: In defence of technocrats

    The appointments of non-politicians Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti in Greece and Italy has caused much ink to flow. But on the continent, experts have often played a positive role in politics in times of deep crisis, points out a Guardian editor.
    17 November 2011 – The Guardian (London) 11

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