Historian Winkler criticizes the SPD’s Russia policy 2024-03-27 17:04:34

Together for Ukraine? Federal President Steinmeier and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) in February with the Ukrainian ambassador Oleksii Makeiev (center) during the shooting training of the Leopard 1 of the EH military aid mission Ukraine at the Klietz military training area Image: Frank Röth The Ukrainian ambassador has no understanding of Mützenich’s term “freezing”. … Read more

The Taurus splits the traffic light coalition 2024-03-24 12:02:55

Szens of a coalition, act one: On the government bench of the Bundestag, the face of the Green Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock freezes. It’s March 14th, parliament is debating whether Germany should deliver the Taurus cruise missile to Ukraine, and SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich has just detonated an explosive device at the desk. … Read more

Pro-Palestinian Protesters Taunt Scholz at Book Fair – 2024-03-24 11:13:37

Pro-Palestinian protesters heckle and interrupt German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a speech at the opening of the Leipzig Book Fair.(AFP) Pro-Palestinian protesters heckled and interrupted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday as he tried to give a speech at the opening of the Leipzig Book Fair. Several loud shouts were heard as Scholz began his … Read more

Germany, France, Italy and 11 other EU countries urge the EIB to finance more defense industrial projects |

The die is cast: the European Investment Bank (EIB) is going to have to become more involved in European rearmament. A group of 14 countries has sent a letter to the president of the EU’s large financial arm, Nadia Calviño, urging her to become more involved in financing the defense industry. European leaders ask the … Read more

Scholz, Steinmeier and Baerbock refuse to congratulate 2024-03-18 15:19:55

EIt wasn’t a surprise: Neither Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier nor Chancellor Olaf Scholz congratulated Vladimir Putin on his re-election as Russian President. “There will be no letter to Putin,” said presidential office spokeswoman Cerstin Gammelin to the “Tagesspiegel”. In a statement by Steinmeier distributed on Platform Scholz “did not congratulate” Putin. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock … Read more

Scholz, Macron and Tusk agree to accelerate the purchase of weapons for Ukraine “across the world market” |

Germany, France and Poland tried this Friday to offer an image of strong support for Ukraine in a context of doubts about whether it has enough weapons to resist the Russian offensive. The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, and the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, have agreed to immediately buy more … Read more

Scholz, Macron and Tusk agree to accelerate the purchase of weapons for Ukraine “across the world market” |

Germany, France and Poland tried this Friday to offer an image of strong support for Ukraine in a context of doubts about whether it has enough weapons to resist the Russian offensive. The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, and the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, have agreed to immediately buy more … Read more

Debate between Scholz and Macron in Berlin 2024-03-16 09:06:45

BBefore the Federal Chancellor and the French President met with the Polish Prime Minister on Friday afternoon in the format of the “Weimar Triangle”, the two of them had a bilateral meeting in the Chancellery at lunchtime. This was eagerly awaited, after weeks of ever-increasing differences between Berlin and Paris, after debates about who in … Read more