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Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
In order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, on 22 March Chancellor Angela Merkel and the prime ministers of the federal provinces agreed to tighten the guidelines on restricting joint movement
Analyses |
| Konrad Popławski
The outbreak of the coronavirus has caused serious problems for the German economy due to the exceptionally high degree of its internationalisation. 9 March saw the biggest slump on the German stock exchange since the attacks on the World…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
Chancellor Angela Merkel met the Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis in Berlin on 9 March. During the meeting she promised that Germany would accept some of the minor refugees from the camps in Greece, who number between 1000 and 1500…
Analyses |
| Konrad Popławski
The US-China trade deal (so-called ‘Phase 1’) came into effect on 14 February. One of its key provisions is that China is obliged to buy US goods worth US$200 billion in 2020–2021. The two countries have also halved the customs tariffs on…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the leader of the CDU announced on 10 February that she would no longer lead the party and that she would not apply to run for chancellor as the Christian Democrat candidate during the election to the Bundestag…
Analyses |
| Mateusz Chudziak, Kamil Frymark
German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan while on a visit to Turkey on 24 January. During the conversation, she announced that Germany would back the continuation of EU support for Turkey that has been…
Analyses |
| Ryszarda Formuszewicz
The international conference in Berlin dedicated to resolving the Libya conflict confirmed that German diplomacy is capable of effective mediation. This will strengthen Germany’s position at the halfway point of its term as a non-permanent…
Analyses |
| Michał Kędzierski
A meeting concerning work on the coal phase-out act was held on 15 January at the Chancellor’s Office. The meeting was attended by representatives of the federal government and the ministers president of the federal states where brown coal…
Point of View |
| Anna Kwiatkowska
The decision to leave the borders open, the influx of more than one million people to Germany and the resulting migration crisis in late 2015 and early 2016 were formative experiences for the current political class in Germany and have…
Analyses |
| Agata Łoskot-Strachota
The US Congress adopted the defence budget (National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA) for 2020 which envisages sanctions concerning the Nord Stream 2 (NS2) gas pipeline. On 9 December, the document was passed by the House of…