Our latest newsletter by @dschwarzer.bsky.social is out now with info on:
🗳️What Hungary's election means for the EU
🤝How the EU Can Deliver in MENA
🌍Global Europe in the next EU budget
And much more!
Read it here: www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/bst-europ...
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump
Article III
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
Personally, I’d rather have the world’s best solar panels, batteries, and electric vehicles.
Der
@cem_oezdemir
legt bei seiner Rede heute erneut ein Niveau an den Tag, das man in der deutschen Politik lange vermisst hat.
Jetzt geht’s los - hier der live stream : Europas Trümpfe: Warum wir mehr Verhandlungsmacht haben, als wir denken. youtube.com/live/T8EIxfE...
Impressive. Over and over again.
#maiasandu
It's been a busy January! Read our latest newsletter with recap of the last couple of weeks by @dschwarzer.bsky.social, along with highlights from our experts on topics including:
🚀Space economy
🌡️ETS2 carbon pricing
🏭Industrial accelerator act
and more ➡️ www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/bst-europ...
Meine Nachlese mit Marietta Slomka und Elmar Theveßen zu einer intensiven Davos-Woche: #Grönland, #Ukraine, "Friedensrat", Inneramerikanisches - was von den jüngsten internationalen Entwicklungen wichtig ist und bleibt.
Hier im @heutejournal.bsky.social podcast
www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-...
Quite the week for German foreign policy with Chancellor Merz in India and the foreign and finance ministers in Washinton DC.
Here is my analysis on 🇩🇪🇪🇺 - 🇮🇳, European options on Greenland, 🇺🇦 and more. Thanks @tvpworld.bsky.social for this in-depth conversation.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ymRo...
Very much looking forward!
This sober pragmatism is driven by security and economic resilience concerns. It will be interesting to see how Germany develops its “soft power” in a more conflictual world while Germany’s image as Europe’s economic powerhouse is showing serious cracks.
German foreign policy-making will rely more heavily on strengthened intergovernmental diplomacy.
This includes partnerships with countries that “hold different opinions and whose positions may sometimes seem strange to us,” says Wadephul. 4/
While the DG for International Order will stay and absorb teams working on stabilisation, prevention etc.
But funds for crisis regions and large humanitarian budgets for external cultural and educational policy will be administered directly by the regional desks. 3/
Goals 1 and 3 will be supported by strong departments for security policy and for EU policy and geoeconomics.
The department for stabilisation created 20y ago will be dissolved, as will the department for foreign cultural and educational policy. Staff numbers at the Berlin HQ will go down 2/
Germany’s foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, has announced a major reform of his ministry to become effective in summer of 2026. As the NSC is built, the MFA refocuses.
Wadephul has emphasised three foreign policy goals: protecting Germany’s security, freedom, and prosperity. 1/
It was an honour to moderate this meeting with President Macron, Chancellor Merz, Commission VP Virkkunen and leading tech CEOs to discuss how to concretely advance European digital sovereignty. Impressive success stories, a strong sense of urgency and compelling suggestions for change.
Great to contribute to this weeks TTP. I make the point France's political permacrisis is bad news for European rearmament efforts.
I'm in excellent company too @georginaewright.bsky.social @dschwarzer.bsky.social.
🌍Geoeconomic Interconnectivity Index (GEOII)
How connected is Europe to its neighbourhood, and how about the US, China & Russia?
Explore the GEOII here: geoii.eu/start
And read @dschwarzer.bsky.social's piece on how Europe must wield its economic weight here: www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/kolu...
Die Modernisierungsagenda macht auch vor dem Parlament nicht halt. Das war die positiv-stimmende Einsicht des sehr spannenden Abends zum Thema "Von Aussteigern lernen: Welche Veränderungen braucht der Bundestag". u.a. mit Julia Klöckner, Philipp Amthor, @dschwarzer.bsky.social 1/3
On France’s Political Crisis
@dschwarzer.bsky.social contributes to @carnegieeurope.bsky.social "Taking the Pulse", writing how turmoil in Paris undermines Europe’s geopolitical hand from defence unity to fiscal credibility.
carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...
Yes, I think it does. Click below to read our views. Thanks @rmomtaz.bsky.social !
Thank you, @yoerialbrecht.bsky.social for showing this truely thought provoking documentary at @debalie.bsky.social - and for hosting Samuel George, our award-winning documentary director for a discussion. Really proud to see our BFNA documentaries travel Europe!@bfnadocs.bsky.social
Zusammen mit dem Monitoring-Bericht zur Energiewende hat Katherina Reiche in der letzten Woche einen Zehn-Punkte-Plan vorgestellt. Dieser weist sprachlich wie inhaltlich große Ähnlichkeiten zu einem Papier von RWE und Eon aus dem Frühjahr auf. Ein längerer Thread mit Links und Beispielen. (1/19)
“We need to be clear with ourselves that we have entered a phase where we are probably in a real systemic conflict with the United States” - @dschwarzer.bsky.social
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Same here!
EDINA IV is complete: 25 chapters, 25 national views 🇪🇺 From Norway to Sweden, Lithuania to Germany — Europe’s defence cannot afford to lag. 👉 edina-defence.org/edina04
Our Europe newsletter is out today! @dschwarzer.bsky.social shares her thoughts on current events and our colleagues' latest work.
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Very much looking forward to our debate on Wednesday!
Michael Leigh, EU Enlargement: Exporting Stability or Importing Instability?
@stevenblockmans.bsky.social, Gradual EU integration: limits to an à la carte approach
@dschwarzer.bsky.social, Enlargement will only succeed if the EU embraces more flexibility
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Foreign policy begins at home - and I would add: also boomerangs back home! Europe has not even begun to grapple with the consequences of an increasingly personalist-authoritarian US government for the fate of its democracies at home. #policyincoherence #democracy @dschwarzer.bsky.social