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Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska
From 2 to 4 March, Chancellor Friedrich Merz paid a working visit to the United States at the invitation of President Donald Trump. The key event was a meeting at the White House on 3 March, followed by a working lunch. The agenda was…
Analyses |
| Lidia Gibadło, Anna Kwiatkowska
In the first week of December, Chancellor Friedrich Merz undertook a two-day visit to Jordan and Israel – his first since assuming office. In Jordan, he met King Abdullah II, to whom he expressed support for a two-state solution to the…
Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska
On 8 September, Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) opened the annual ambassadors’ conference in Berlin identifying security and the competitiveness of the Federal Republic of Germany as priorities amid the systemic conflict between liberal…
Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska
Germany has decided to radically revise its policy towards Russia. The government of Olaf Scholz has suspended the certification process of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, agreed to the exclusion of selected Russian banks from the SWIFT…
Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska
… tension within the government. Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and the Vice-Chancellor and Federal … and even counterproductive. Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock met her Russian counterpart on 18 …
Point of View |
| Anna Kwiatkowska
Angela Merkel is the first woman to climb to the top of German politics. Step by step, to the surprise of her male rivals inside the party, she took over the leadership on the political scene of Germany, and then of the European Union.…
Point of View |
| Anna Kwiatkowska
The decision to leave the borders open, the influx of more than one million people to Germany and the resulting migration crisis in late 2015 and early 2016 were formative experiences for the current political class in Germany and…
Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) elected a new party leader during its party congress in Hamburg. The new leader is Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (often known by her initials, AKK), who won the votes of 517 delegates, beating Friedrich…
Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska
On 7th – 9th December the SPD held its convention in Berlin. Delegates reelected Martin Schulz as the party’s leader (with support at 82%).
Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska
During her first visit to the United States Chancellor Angela Merkel was faced with a new approach towards Germany by an American administration.