On February 27, 2022, three days after the eruption of conflict in Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivered a policy statement in the German Parliament. He said “We are living through a watershed era. And that means that the world afterwards will no longer be the same as the world before”. In the Western world, Germany was considered to be ...
Germany’s positioning in the Ukraine conflict has started to shake the basis of the country’s energy supply and economy. The government reacts with intervening into the market economy, including considering expropriations in a new law. “The security of supply in Germany is currently safeguarded” This is – every day until now – the first sentence in the German Federal Network ...
“The traffic lights are on”, said Olaf Scholz, candidate of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and designated Chancellor of the country. As United World International had predicted back in March 2021, Germany is heading to a coalition government of SPD, the Greens and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), red-green-yellow being the three parties colors. Following the elections September ...
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on August 20. This has been the last meeting between the two leaders, as Merkel will not be a candidate in the September parliamentary elections in Germany. Still, the meeting was much more that a “farewell visit”, as the German press commented. The list of topics on ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen Following US pressure, the European Union (EU) has been imposing economic sanctions on Russia since 2014, on the ground that the latter was destabilizing Ukraine and had “annexed” Crimea. Germany and France have taken a different path from the United States in their relations with Ukraine and therefore with Russia and demanded on the recent EU ...
By Tunç Akkoç Nord Stream 2 is a project that aims to increase the natural gas supply from Russia to Europe. The construction was agreed upon in 2015. But since that day, discussions between the US and European countries have not stopped. The conflict went beyond discussion, and the involved Western countries and politicians have entered a fierce power struggle ...