Germany

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 3, 2021: Russia's President Vladimir Putin is seen in his office in the Kremlin as he chairs a videoconference meeting of permanent members of the Russian Security Council. Mikhail Metzel/POOL/TASS.

What Biden should say to Putin on Ukraine

Monday, December 6, 2021

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz welcome NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the German government guesthouse Meseberg Palace in Meseberg, Germany, April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Nuclear weapons debate in Germany touches a raw NATO nerve

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Friday, November 19, 2021

Berlin, Germany.- German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (left) and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (right) attend a meeting of European Union defense ministers in Berlin, Germany on August 26, 2020. The meeting discusses missions and operations and the situation in Belarus and the eastern Mediterranean.

The world won’t wait for Germany’s coalition negotiators

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Afghan citizens, who have been evacuated from Kabul, arrive at Naval Station (NAVSTA) Rota Air Base in Rota, southern Spain, August 31, 2021. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

The war in Afghanistan has shaped an entire generation in the West

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Restaurant manager Angelika Meixner places a portrait of new German Chancellor Angela Merkel beside pictures of her predecessors on a wall at the restaurant 'Kanzlereck' ('Chancellors Corner') in Berlin's government district, November 23, 2005. The pictures show (top row from L) Konrad Adenauer (German Chancellor from 1949 to 1963), Ludwig Erhardt (1963-1966), Kurt Georg Kiesinger (1966-1969), Willy Brandt (1969-1974) (lower from L) Helmut Schmidt (1974-1982), Helmut Kohl (1982-1998), Gerhard Schroeder (1998-2005) and Merkel (2005-).

“None of the above?”: Germany’s eminently resistible chancellor candidates have escaped the hardships of previous leaders

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hold a joint news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany June 23, 2021. Clemens Bilan/Pool via REUTERS

Sharper strategic thinking will help Germany mend fences with US

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak speaks at a meeting of finance ministers from across the G7 nations ahead of the G7 leaders' summit, at Lancaster House in London, Britain June 4, 2021. Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/Pool via REUTERS

Around the halls: What to watch in Biden’s week of summits in Europe

Pavel K. Baev, Célia Belin, James Goldgeier, Samantha Gross, Syaru Shirley Lin, Suzanne Maloney, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Patrick W. Quirk, Douglas A. Rediker, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and Thomas Wright

Monday, June 7, 2021

Components of SSC-8/9M729 cruise missile system are on display during a news briefing, organized by Russian defence and foreign ministries, at Patriot Expocentre near Moscow, Russia January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Germany’s role in US-Russian nuclear arms control

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Reiner Haseloff (CDU, l), Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt, stands next to Armin Laschet (CDU), Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia and candidate for the chancellorship of the CDU/CSU, in front of a model of a forest elephant that lived 200,000 years ago at the Pfännerhall exhibition centre. A new state parliament will be elected in Saxony-Anhalt on 06.06.2021.

East German political winds ruffle feathers in Berlin

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

During a Greenpeace action, a CO-2 sign stands in front of the Brandenburg Gate with flames coming out of it. Two demonstrators hold a banner with the words "Before you go Mrs Merkel: Secure the future". With the action, activists of the environmental protection organization call on the German government to further reduce CO-2 emissions in Germany and to ensure compliance with the goals of the world climate summit in Paris.

Germany is becoming ground zero for the challenges of deep decarbonization

Friday, May 28, 2021