Germany
Reports
2019
Nov
12
Past Event
Europe 1989-2019: Lessons learned 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
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Washington, DC
2017
Oct
24
Past Event
The German election and the future of the trans-Atlantic relationship
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Berlin, Germany
2017
Sep
15
Past Event
Europe and the U.S.: The old order faces a new world
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Washington, DC
Carlo Bastasin
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
Constanze Stelzenmüller
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic Relations
Angela Stent
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
I have sympathy for the criticism of Germany’s low defense spending, which does set a bad example for other member states who spend even less – it’s against Europe’s and our own interest. Moving Eucom to Belgium actually makes sense, but I find the strategic rationale for the other movements much less persuasive.
[The decision to pull nearly 12,000 troops from Germany] is all to do with Donald Trump’s deep-seated psychological hostility to Germany in general and Angela Merkel in particular. There’s no strategy.
