Germany

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Why Were The German-Russian Foreign Ministers’ Talks A Dud Unlike The Belarusian-Polish Ones?

The German Foreign Minister only had domestic political motives for talking to his Russian counterpart while the Polish one had military-security motives for talking to his Belarusian counterpart. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed disappointment after his meeting with his German counterpart Johann Wadephul, which was the first between their […]

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Russia Could Make An Energy Truce Conditional On Resuming Pipeline Exports To Europe

Restoring some of their pre-2022 complex mutual interdependence through US mediation, even if only for the wintertime, could facilitate a series of pragmatic diplomatic-military compromises aimed at resolving the Ukrainian Conflict and jointly building the new continental security architecture. Zelensky recently proposed a partial truce with Russia that would include, […]

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Sunday’s Elections Could Decide Merz’s Fate

rl Friedrich Merz has been chancellor for just 16 months, and he’s already facing the kind of electoral test that could determine whether he serves out anything close to a full term. Voters in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania went to the polls Sunday in elections that, on paper, are regional […]

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Reading The Warning Signs Around Chancellor Merz

Political power in Germany rarely collapses overnight. It erodes first – in lost votes, in failed personnel reshuffles, in polling numbers that keep sliding without a clear floor – and only later does that erosion translate into an actual change of leadership. That’s the framework German political analysts are now […]

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Nuclear Umbrella At The Gates Of The Northern Fleet

Europe is looking for insurance. After 2022, American guarantees no longer look ironclad, and northern capitals began searching for a substitute closer to home. On 2 March 2026, at the Île Longue submarine base, Emmanuel Macron announced the most significant shift in French nuclear doctrine in three decades. For the […]