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Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin www.gppi.net
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Regierung am Tag nach der Wahl Trumps sprengen. Weltentrückten Wahlkampf führen. Gelegenheit Reform Schuldenbremse verpassen. Am Ende im Zeichen der größten Krise Allianzpolitik seit 80 Jahren mit Notwendigkeit Koalitionsbildung mit 4 Parteien dastehen. Das wäre eine wahrhaft brillante Bilanz.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Dependency on Starlink casually weaponized by US administration. Conclusions for Europe and anyone else in orbit of former US-led alliance should be crystal clear. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Merz is stating the obvious. We need to conduct the discussions on how to defend Germany without US security guarantees without any Denkverbote and the usual „Das geht nicht“ spirit.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Not least in light of massive defense investments needed what Friedrich Merz and many of us will likely regret most about his campaign on Sunday night will be the decision not to use 2/3 majority with SPD & Greens to change debt brake rules during the final weeks of this Bundestag.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Should Poland have nuclear weapons? The majority of respondents answered yes. The first effects of Trump's policy are emerging.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

"'Es ist die Zeit der Monster'. Ohne eine Vision für einen neuen europäischen Westen drohen wir, in dieser Zeit unterzugehen". Kann als Gedankenanregung sehr empfehlen, was Nikolai Ott aufschreibt zum Ende des liberalen Westens unter US-Führung. www.ipg-journal.de/rubriken/aus...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Wenn die Schutzmacht zur feindseligen Macht wird. Meine Handelsblatt-Kolumne. 🇩🇪 & EU sind im Zangengriff von Trump, Putin & Xi -- wir müssen die Selbstbehauptung neu organisieren. Wie gut, daß wir all das so gründlich im Wahlkampf thematisiert haben. www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/kolu...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Das habe ich 2017 geschrieben. So richtig viel weitergekommen sind wir da noch nicht. Heute stellt sich die Frage um so dringlicher, als der "komplette Zusammenbruch des euro-atlantischen Bündnisses" keinesfalls ausgeschlossen scheint. gppi.net/2017/02/10/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Mit der Weinerlichkeit hat Mathias Döpfner durchaus recht. Aber die Alternative zu Weinerlichkeit heißt Rückgrat & Urteilsvermögen. Und "strategisch" sollte man nicht mit "taktisch" verwechseln in der Hoffnung, "Mißverständnis" zu Politico zu bereinigen. www.ft.com/content/cb1c...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

When your Schutzmacht turns into a hostile force: my new Handelsblatt column deals with 🇩🇪 and 🇪🇺 in the grip of Trump, Putin & Xi. Task for the new government is clear: help reorganize 🇩🇪 & 🇪🇺 self-assertion in hostile world. Great our campaign discussed this so thoroughly. gppi.net/2025/02/19/i...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Kurz vor dem Tod nahm Gerhart Baum noch einmal Fritz Sterns "Kulturpessimismus als politische Gefahr" zur Hand, berichtet Johannes Vogel. Andere Vorzeichen, aber man kann sich nicht des Eindrucks erwehren, daß the likes of Ulf Poschardt heute Vulgärversionen von Sterns Untersuchungsobjekten sind.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Putin & Xi sind die großen Gewinner von München. Mit @nicolange.bsky.social, Ulrike Strauss & Generalmajor Freuding habe ich in München im Zeitenwende-Podcast ein kleines post-mortem der MSC versucht und einen Ausblick darauf, was jetzt zu tun ist. open.spotify.com/show/5ncwGmu...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Ich fand Merz’ Abgrenzung zur AfD gestern sehr klar. Auch wenn Merz es ernst meint: die “Brandmauer” ist eine ziemlich aussichtslose Wette gegen die politische Schwerkraft. Das sollte Ausgangspunkt unserer Debatten um den Umgang mit der AfD sein. Mein Stück im STERN. www.stern.de/politik/vanc...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Zukunft, China, Klima, Technologie/KI, deutsches Geschäftsmodell spielten wieder keinerlei Rolle gestern. Und Diskussion zu Frieden und Sicherheit blieb dank der Moderatoren auf Dschungelcamp-Niveau. Und das nach dieser Woche. So ganz fassen kann ich das immer noch nicht.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

🇺🇸carefully created an opening for Beijing to present itself as rooting for 🇺🇦and 🇪🇺seat at the table — a seat that is being denied by the Trump Administration. The US presented Wang Yi with the best possible Munich weekend he could have imagined. 🇨🇳delegation must have truly had fun.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Post-Vance: Mein Stück im Stern zu den Illusionen der Brandmauer. www.stern.de/politik/vanc...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

We've entered a world in which, however hypocritical, Wang Yi extolling principles of UN Charter & multilateralism, warning against "We First", "Might Makes Right" and "Opening Pandoras's Box of Law of Jungle" sort of resonates with the experience of the past months. #MSC2025

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Probably there is no clearer way to express to Europeans that they are increasingly on their own than to spend 95% of the prime time speech at a Security Conference on cultural war issues while a real war is raging on the continent. #MSC2025

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Trump/Vance transformative agenda for Europe seems to take shape: * Help to replace centrist governments in Germany, France (and ultimately also UK) with far-right allies. * Neutralize European Union as a regulatory power able to challenge US interests.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Tear down this Brandmauer. US Vice President Vance goes to Munich to call for an end to the pledge of democratic parties in 🇩🇪to not cooperate with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). www.wsj.com/world/europe...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Scholz calls for Zeitenwende 2.0 in response to recent US initiatives. “Requires clear, fast and decisive European answer. Not someday but now”. Calls for massive expansion of military spending, reform of debt brake and advancing discussion in EU on investment in defense.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Perfect complement to recent announcements would be for US Vice President to speak out at MSC in favor of dropping the commitment on part of all democratic parties in 🇩🇪 to not cooperate with far-right AfD ("Brandmauer").

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"🇨🇦 needs to understand cards we hold. And we have to be prepared to play them. We need to choose our targets with care. (...) 100% percent tariffs on Teslas, imposed by every country in the world, would be a good place to start". @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The German election campaign is dizzyingly depressingly unserious. The disconnect between the reality a new government will have to deal with and what this campaign is all about is just breathtaking.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Doomed to Dependence? Looking forward to this event on Friday night on the sidelines of MSC with John Ridges (NATO Innovation Fund) & Charlotte vd Ahe (Helsing). Thanks for the invite, Young Security Conference. www.youngsecurityconference.com/events/event...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

REPORTER: Do you view Ukraine as an equal member of this peace process? TRUMP: Ummmm ... it's an interesting question. I think they have to make peace. That was not a good war to go into.

submitted 10 days ago • 934 comments

Vor ein paar Stunden die Rede von Hegseth, die unwiderruflich neue Ära einläutet. Aber wir beschäftigen uns lieber mit Hofnarrentum.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

If Trump II was just about the Hegseth speech this would be pretty good news — marking over due start of a transition toward Europe providing for its own conventional security. But sadly Trump is also about predatory hegemony, tariff wars and threats of land grabs. www.defense.gov/News/Speeche...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Diese Madagaskar-Vibes sind schon sehr verstörend.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Netanyahu says the Israeli Security Cabinet „all welcomed“ Trump‘s „revolutionary vision for the future of Gaza“.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

„Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof ist einst gegen autoritäre Staaten mit demokratisch nicht legitimierten Regierungen gegründet worden“. Und deshalb finden wir Wege, Haftbehehl zu ignorieren. Eher eigenwillige Interpretation des Römischen Status. www.juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/es-g...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

"You have been warned". Cheerful read of the day. www.ft.com/content/8d1a...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Both Merz and Scholz called Trump's Gaza ethnic cleansing plan "a scandal".

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Gestern ein Duell, in dem Zukunft, China, Technologie und das wahre Ausmaß der sicherheitspolitischen Gefahren keinerlei Themen waren. Heute dann hartes Umschalten auf Zitierfehler in Habecks Diss. Der 🇩🇪 Wahlkampf begeistert täglich.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Not a single word on how key technologies are re-shaping things and how Germany and Europe can be a player during 90 minutes of Merz vs Scholz. The closest we got to technology was the question on whether they will stay on X.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

90 minutes of Merz vs Scholz. Zero minutes on China policy. Wahnsinn.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments