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Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
At a special session on 14 October, the parliament of Saxony-Anhalt adopted a joint resolution submitted by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), entitled ‘Peace talks instead of expanding the war in…
Analyses |
| Maciej Kalwasiński, Aleksandra Kozaczyńska
On 5 October, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron urged the European Commission (EC) to take decisive action to address growing imbalances in international trade and practices that distort fair competition…
Analyses |
| Aleksandra Kozaczyńska
On 1 October, CARIAD, the Volkswagen subsidiary responsible for developing vehicle software, announced plans to cut around 1,000 jobs from its current workforce of 4,300. The company also intends to reduce its planned investment for 2027–…
Analyses |
| Lidia Gibadło
On 4 October, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) paid his second visit to Kyiv, where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He was accompanied by the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Minister, Katherina Reiche…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 20 September, the AfD won the election to the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (MVP), securing 38.2% of the vote (+21.5 percentage points compared with the 2021 result) and 32 seats in the 71-seat parliament. It…
Analyses |
| Jacek Tarociński, Lidia Gibadło
On 16 September, during a visit to the Pentagon, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) and his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth, signed a declaration on closer cooperation between the two countries’ defence industries and the…
OSW Commentary |
| Sandra Baniak-Stachowiak
For more than half a century, Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg have remained Europe’s largest seaports. In recent years, however, their growth has slowed considerably, while cargo throughput has remained virtually unchanged. Although they…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
The AfD won the parliamentary election in Saxony-Anhalt on 6 September, securing 43.8% of the vote – 23 percentage points more than in 2021. This gave the party 39 seats in the 83-seat Landtag. The CDU, which had previously led the state…
Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska, Kamil Frymark
On 1 September, the German government for the first time attributed the attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport on 4 August to Russia (see ‘Armed drone found at Leipzig Airport’) and announced a series of retaliatory measures.
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Frymark
The elections scheduled for 6 September in Saxony-Anhalt will be crucial for Germany’s political system. For the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) has a real chance of taking…