Nathalie Versieux
Nathalie Versieux is a French journalist. She is Berlin correspondent for several French-language media outlets, including Libération, RFI, Radio Canada and Le Temps.
Updated: 22 December 2010
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By Nathalie Versieux
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Germany: Boomtime for Hitler
1 February 2013392 69 Le Temps Geneva -
Demography: Germany’s baby blues
4 December 2012352 78 Libération Paris -
Bi-national marriage: The woes of bi-cultural divorce
22 December 201090 3 Libération Paris
Released in the autumn of 2012, ahead of the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's coming to power, "Er ist wieder da" ("He's Back") by German writer Timur Vermes starts off with the dictator’s return to Berlin in the summer of 2011. The book has soared to the top of the book sales charts, but it has also set some teeth on edge. 
Germany's birth rate has been declining for years. Costly programmes to encourage women to have children are in place but their haphazard implementation contributes to a failure to reverse the trend. 
Each year, in Germany, thousands of bi-national couples get a divorce. But arrangements for granting custody of the children are complicated because the legal system routinely favours the German parent. Recently adopted European regulations may simplify matters.