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| 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…
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| 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…
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| 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–…
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| 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…
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| 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…
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| 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…
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| 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…
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| 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.
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 5 August, Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior announced that staff at Leipzig/Halle Airport had discovered a drone carrying explosives and a detonator. The device was found in the immediate vicinity of a Ukrainian Antonov…
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| Łukasz Maślanka, Jacek Tarociński
On 17 July, Nörvenich Air Base in Germany hosted a meeting of the Franco-German Defence and Security Council, co-chaired by President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The meeting took place ahead of the joint session of the…