Germany

Students raise their hands to ask a question to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her talk with students at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, February 5, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC119CD54670

Order from Chaos

Trump treats Germany like “America’s worst ally”

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, May 9, 2019

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gestures after writing 'Good Luck!' on a pipe of the Nord Stream pipeline near Russian town of Vyborg, April 9, 2010. Medvedev took part in the ceremony on Friday to start building the pipeline, which was designed to help Russia increase its influence in EU gas markets from the current 25 percent to about a third. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk (RUSSIA - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY BUSINESS) - GM1E6491EYC01

Order from Chaos

Nord Stream 2: A failed test for EU unity and trans-Atlantic coordination

Giovanna De Maio

Monday, April 22, 2019

British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker look at each other during a news conference in Strasbourg, France March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler - RC17106DF9E0

International Affairs

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – April 2019

Friday, April 19, 2019

German Chancellor Angela Merkel receives Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins with military honours at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse - RC1AF0B3C800

International Affairs

Germany is NATO’s biggest freeloader

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Reports

Alice Weidel of Alternative for Germany (AfD) speaks during a session at the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany November 21, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch - RC1A64D3ACF0

Germany

Germany: Baffled hegemon

Constanze Stelzenmüller

February 2019

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Paris Peace Forum

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – January 2019

Friday, January 18, 2019

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and U.S. President Donald Trump

Report

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard – September 2018

Monday, September 17, 2018

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim during the news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch TPX

Report

Germany and Turkey: The unavoidable partnership

Stephen F. Szabo

March 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel before the first working session of the G20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld,Pool - RC1C9C45A9E0

Report

Normal is over

Constanze Stelzenmüller

February 2018

Blog Posts

German defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen and her Norwegian counterpart Eriksen Soereide visit a German U34 submarine in Eckernfoerde, Germany, August 22, 2017. REUTERS/Markus Scholz/POOL - RC1D79BE2370

Order from Chaos

Germans must start taking defence spending seriously

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Tuesday, April 2, 2019

The flags of Germany and France are seen in front of the the Chancellery, before the meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron in Berlin, Germany May 15, 2017. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski - RC1BF335E170

Order from Chaos

A new Franco-German narrative for Europe

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

A woman looks at magazines displayed at a kiosk in Zurich March 16 , 2015. One of Switzerland's two big supermarkets, Coop, is to stop selling titles such as German magazine Der Spiegel, the German-language edition of Vogue and a Mickey Mouse comic because it says local distributors have not cut prices after a currency surge. The Swiss central bank's decision on Jan. 15 to end a cap on the value of the currency at 1.20 Swiss francs per euro sent the franc skyrocketing and led to fears for Switzerland's export-reliant economy. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (SWITZERLAND - Tags: MEDIA BUSINESS) - GM1EB3H00BN01

Order from Chaos

Germany’s leading magazine published falsehoods about American life

Friday, January 4, 2019

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Events

The German election and the future of the trans-Atlantic relationship

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CEST

Berlin, Germany

CANCELLED: The future of the West: A conversation with Bernard-Henri Lévy

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

Europe and the U.S.: The old order faces a new world

9:15 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

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By James Kirchick

2017

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2014

Welcome to Hard Times

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2010

Multimedia

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Order from Chaos

Trump and the trans-Atlantic divide

Thursday, May 31, 2018

U.S. President Trump and German Chancellor Merkel hold a joint news conference in Washington.

Germany

How Merkel can overcome tensions with Trump

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Christian Democratic Union CDU party leader and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for a news conference at the CDU party headquarters, the day after the general election (Bundestagswahl) in Berlin, Germany September 25, 2017. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach - RC1C6D427BF0

Podcast Episode

Merkel wins, far right gains: What happened in Germany’s elections?

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Monday, September 25, 2017

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