Dear Readers,

For almost 10 years now, SPIEGEL International has offered news, features and opinions from Germany in English, including the very best journalism from Europe's leading newsmagazine, DER SPIEGEL. Over the years, we brought you the WikiLeaks exposés, NSA spying revelations from whistleblower Edward Snowden and some of the most insightful reporting available on Germany and Europe.

Recently, as many of you have noticed, and indeed written in to ask us about, the number of stories posted to the site each day has been reduced. At SPIEGEL International, we face many of the same economic pressures most leading media outlets are struggling with these days. This has forced us to evaluate how we can reduce the size of the website and still offer the most relevant, poignant stories possible in the future.

Tough times or not, SPIEGEL International intends to keep on publishing the best of its world-class journalism in English each week. Scoops, analysis, in-depth features, interviews with world leaders: We will continue to bring you all that and more each week.