Not even the thick walls of the 15th-century Schloss Wurzen can keep out the morning birdsong, which seems particularly loud in this quiet corner of Saxony ... late-17th country house, once ...

The email from a colleague arrived around 6. He had heard, via the Olympic grapevine, that Saxony House is so popular they’d run out of beer. What? A German pavilion without beer? So as Maclean ...

talks of a "tsunami of arrogance" that has swept over the country since 1989. Saxony's economy, or rather what was left of it after World War II and 40 years' of planned economy in the GDR ...