Germany
Reports
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
The Biden administration has been bending over backwards to work with Germany and it is dismayed at the hot mess coming out of Berlin.
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What you have is a lot of people in the parliamentary group of the SPD [Social Democrats] and in the opposition, questioning the wisdom of sanctions.