We are continuing with the second part of our interview with Ingar Solty, research fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation affiliated to the Left party and a frequent expert to the German parliament’s public hearings on peace and security policy.. The first part has dealt with the approval of 100 billion Euros of defense spending as extra-budget item, where the ...
With the eruption of conflict over Ukraine, the world’s eyes turned repeated to Berlin, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany. Just three days after the begin of what Russia called “special military operation”, German Chancellor announced a “turning point” in Germany’s foreign policy. An extra defense spending of 100 billion Euros followed. Later on, everyone focused on former ...
NATO, the global control device of the USA, published a joint statement after the EU 5 years. Emphasizing that ‘the transatlantic link is more important than ever’, the statement noted that EU-NATO relations will be taken ‘to the next level’. The Financial Times commented that this move was a blow to Europe’s dreams of strategic autonomy. The European Union and ...
By Tunç Akkoç The new Foreign Minister of Germany has had a quick start to her job. Annalena Baerbock, who flew to Paris on the first evening the day of the oath ceremony, made her first visit to France. Baerbock, who has made six trips in seven days, visited five cities, attended the G7 Foreign Ministers summit and the EU ...
International politics is getting a new definition for an act of aggression: Not using a country a transit space for gas transfers and consequently not paying the according fees. The newly elected Foreign Minister of Germany, Annalena Baerbock presented the argumentation in a recent interview to the German TV channel ZDF. Asked about the operation of the Nord Stream 2 ...
“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 ...
By Ali Riza Tasdelen It is now a well-accepted reality that the Atlantic camp led by the United States has been in a dissolution process for the past decade, while the Asian camp led by China, is growing now more than ever. Two separate events that took place last week have confirmed that reality once more. One of the events ...
By Tunç Akkoç The parliamentary elections in Germany are now less than five months away. The political climate is heating up more and more. And recently, there is almost only a single person who draws all the attention: Annalena Baerbock. Baerbock, who was announced as The Greens’ candidate for Chancellery on April 19th, has started appearing on the covers of ...