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OSW Commentary |
| Michał Kędzierski
It took many weeks of negotiations for the leaders of the SPD-Greens-FDP coalition to reach a compromise on the strategy for building new power plants, which are intended to complement renewable energy sources (RESs) and enable the final…
OSW Commentary |
| Sebastian Płóciennik
The European Union is nearing a decision on whether to impose restrictions on imports of electric cars from China. The German automotive industry is observing this scenario with apprehension as it expects both retaliation from the…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 27 January, the first nationwide congress of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance for Reason and Justice (BSW) took place in Berlin. Nearly 400 delegates passed the party’s programme for the elections to the European Parliament and selected…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 20–21 January, Germany saw a wave of demonstrations against the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD). A total of around a million individuals took to the streets (estimates provided by the police and the organisers differ, and…
OSW Report |
| Kamil Frymark
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MAIN POINTS
Analyses |
| Sebastian Płóciennik
Shortly before the Christmas break, EU finance ministers agreed on the general guidelines for the reform of fiscal rules. First of all, more flexibility in reducing debt and the introduction of investment incentives is envisaged. This is a…
Analyses |
| Justyna Gotkowska, Jakub Graca
On 18 December in Vilnius, Boris Pistorius and Arvydas Anušauskas, the defence ministers of Germany and Lithuania, signed the so-called roadmap for the deployment of a German brigade in Lithuania (‘Brigade Lithuania’). Its headquarters…
Analyses |
| Lidia Gibadło
According to the coalition government’s compromise on the 2024 budget (see ‘Germany: the budget crisis has been resolved’), Germany will raise its funding for military aid to Ukraine from the planned €4 billion to €8 billion in the coming…
Analyses |
| Michał Kędzierski
On 19 December 2023, Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE), a German state-controlled gas company, signed a long-term contract with the Norwegian Equinor energy company to supply 111 TWh of gas annually in the period from 2024 to 2034 (which…
Analyses |
| Sebastian Płóciennik
It took almost a month for Germany’s ruling coalition to decide on how to adjust the country’s financial plans for 2024 to the ruling passed by the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC).