Pascale Hugues

Pascale Hugues – Born in Strasbourg, Hugues began her career in journalism at the BBC world service in London before moving on to become the English correspondent at the French daily newspaper, "Libération". Hugues’ job with the paper took her to Germany in 1989. Since 1995, she has worked as a correspondent for the French news magazine "Le Point". Pascale Hugues became known as an author after the publication of her book "Le Bonheur Allemand" ("German Happiness").

Ewald König

Ewald König – An Austrian national, König began his journalistic career working at the daily newspaper, "Die Presse". As the paper’s Germany correspondent, König first reported from Bonn, then Berlin. In 2003, he set up an independent office for correspondents in the German capital. He has been the editor-in-chief of the portal EurActiv.de since 2009. König is also the author of the series "Die Mauer, die Menschen und die Mitte Europas - Berliner Notizen eines Wiener Korrespondenten“ (The Wall, the People and Central Europe – a Viennese Correspondent’s Notes from Berlin”).

Ursula Weidenfeld

Ursula Weidenfeld – has a PhD in history from the University of Bonn and studied journalism at the Holtzbrinck School in Düsseldorf. She became Berlin correspondent and a deputy editor at the magazine “Wirtschaftswoche” before going on to head the corporations desk at the Financial Times Deutschland. In 2001 she took on the job of economics editor at the daily “Der Tagesspiegel” in Berlin. From May of 2008 until January of 2009, Weidenfeld was also editor-in-chief at the business magazine “Impulse “. The journalist regularly writes for the financial daily “Handelsblatt”, and a collection of those articles has been published in book form. In 2007, Ursula Weidenfel was granted the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Commentary. She is currently a freelancer.