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Analyses | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Germany a chance to overcome the economic crisis

The continuing stagnation in Germany raises concerns about a permanent weakening of the economy’s competitiveness and erosion of the prosperity that has been achieved over the past few decades. However, it is not a foregone conclusion that…
Analyses | | Michał Kędzierski, Agata Łoskot-Strachota

The German gas storage levy is disrupting the Central European gas market

On 4 March, the meeting of the EU Energy Council addressed the issue of the German gas storage levy (Gasspeicherumlage) and the need for greater coordination at the European level as requested by delegations from Austria, the Czech…
Analyses | | Lidia Gibadło

Russia is wiretapping the Bundeswehr

On 1 March, Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the Russian broadcaster RT, released a recording from a video conference involving four high-ranking German officers, including the Luftwaffe inspector General Ingo Gerhartz. The…
Analyses | | Lidia Gibadło

An attempt to break the deadlock Scholz visits Washington

During his working visit to Washington on 8–9 February, Chancellor Olaf Scholz met President Joe Biden, Republican and Democratic Party senators, as well as representatives of US companies (including Mastercard, Pfizer and Excelerate…
Analyses | | Kamil Frymark

Germany the launch of the pro-Russian Wagenknecht party

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

Germany mass demonstrations against the AfD

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…
Analyses | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Germany is making concessions over the reform of the EUs fiscal rules

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

The German Brigade Lithuania

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

Germany boosts its funding for military support to Ukraine

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

Germany a huge contract for Norwegian gas

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…