The new governing coalition may soon face public protests due to its policies. By Ali Mercan, Frankfurt / Germany The coalition talks between the Christian Union (CDU-CSU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) entered an intense phase during the second week of April. The fluctuations in public support reflected in the latest polls have increased pressure on both sides. It ...
And China is ready to react. By Orçun Göktürk, Beijing / China “The best thing to do now is to declare war on Taiwan. Because Trump once said he would impose a 100% tariff on China if we did so. But the current rates are way higher than that. At least this way, we would reunify with Taiwan and also ...
The Missing Link in Global Climate Ambitions By Mehmet Enes Beşer The green transformation in the car industry is no longer a vision of the future but a here-and-now necessity. Transport emissions account for almost a quarter of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, and the decarbonization of mobility is at the heart of both European and Asian climate policy. Rhetorical ...
Türkiye could host the match. Here’s how and why. By Feyyaz Erkin Eşli The phone talks between Putin and Trump were constructive and even upbeat. The main takeaway is that both leaders expressed interest in continuing the dialogue and developing relations between the two countries. Many experts have already noted that the most significant aspect of the conversation was not ...
Details and repercussions of the affair. By Mohamed Sabreen, Cairo / Egypt The “Qatar Gate” affair has shaken Israel, not only because it is yet another corruption scandal hounding Benjamin Netanyahu, even if his involvement has not been revealed, but also because it is a bribery scandal benefiting Doha and aimed at tarnishing Egypt’s image, even if the price is ...
Far from giving up on cooperation with China, Italy will cooperate more selectively, openly, and strategically. By Mehmet Enes Beşer Italy’s exit from China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2023 was a symbolic diplomatic move. Having been the first and only G7 country to officially join the BRI in 2019, Italy’s entry had been viewed as a grand vote ...
Navigating Cooperation and Complexity in a Multipolar Asia By Mehmet Enes Beşer As the tectonic plates of international power continue to shift, Southeast Asia’s squarely in the middle of a changing geopolitical order. Its economic vigor, political volatility, and geostrategic positioning make it a hub of key importance in the new global cooperative architecture — and competition. It is against ...
Interview with Constantin Rotaru, President of the Romanian Socialist Party. Romania has recently found itself in the midst of intense political upheaval, highlighting deeper concerns regarding national sovereignty and external interference. The turmoil escalated when Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the December 2024 presidential election, controversially citing alleged foreign interference, particularly implicating Russia, in an apparent effort to sideline nationalist candidate Călin Georgescu, ...
EU-China Cooperation Matters Now More Than Ever By Mehmet Enes Beşer As the European Union seeks leadership in a broken and more uncertain world, the nature of its engagement with China is becoming a key test case—not merely of its geopolitical maturity but of its strategic endurance in the long term. In an increasingly bloc politics-, systemic competition-, and technology-diverging ...
From securing supply lines to fighting insurgencies, a wide range of tasks might be waiting for the 6000 soldiers. By Yunus Soner, Berlin / Germany Germany’s militarization of foreign policy, especially towards Russia has been discussed intensely. The German government has widened the military budget beyond the imaginable. The public opinion discusses day by day the reintroduction of obligatory military ...