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Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska, Konrad Popławski
On 4 October, the EU commissioner for energy, Gunther Oettinger warned of the excessive costs of climate protection which are leading to deindustrialisation and – as a consequence – to a dramatic fall in industry’s share in the creation…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 1 October the management of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) selected the party's candidate to the position of chancellor in the parliamentary election scheduled for September 2013. Peer Steinbruck is one of the SPD leaders…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 12 September the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) in Karlsruhe ruled on motions aimed at blocking the ratification of the following three laws: the law establishing the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the law relating to the…
Analyses |
| Artur Ciechanowicz
The second German-Chinese intergovernmental consultations took place on 30 August. Chancellor Angela Merkel was accompanied in Beijing by a delegation of more than one hundred people, including seven ministers, two secretaries of state and…
Analyses |
| Artur Ciechanowicz
On 30th July Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU), the German Minister of Interior Affairs, dismissed all the heads of the Federal Police (Bundespolizei), which was established in 2005 from the renaming the Border Guard (Bundesgrenzschutz) and is…
Analyses |
| Konrad Mazur
The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources has presented a survey concerning potential deposits of shale gas in Germany, which had been ordered by the federal government. According to the survey, entitled ‘Shale gas…
Analyses |
| Konrad Mazur
E.ON, Germany’s largest energy company, announced on 3 July that a compromise had been reached with Gazprom concerning a reduction in price in the long-term contracts for the supply of Russian gas. This agreement was signed by Alexander…
Analyses |
| Marta Zawilska-Florczuk
On 2 July, Heinz Fromm handed in his resignation from the post of the head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV). Two days later, the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Thuringia was…
OSW Commentary |
| Artur Ciechanowicz, Rafał Sadowski
Following the victories of François Hollande in the presidential election and the Socialist Party in the parliamentary election, the existing model of relations between Germany and France as symbolised by the Merkel-Sarkozy duo is…
Analyses |
| Marta Zawilska-Florczuk
On 21 June German President Joachim Gauck’s spokesman announced that the president would refrain from signing laws ratifying the treaties on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the fiscal compact. Both documents will be subject to…