The Group of 7 met this weekend for their annual summit in Quebec. It will have been hard to miss. Global leaders had managed, over the course of the weekend, to come up with wording […]
‘If Eris, the Greek goddess of strife, symbolises the electoral climate in the UK, US and France these days, Harmonia, her antagonist in Greek mythology, must be watching over Berlin’. Josef Janning for CFR Finally […]
‘This was a system designed and constructed by the Americans, and now the Americans are dismantling it’. Norbert Rottgen, Chairman of Germany’s Bundestag International Affairs Committee, on Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the […]
Merkel’s CDU party has done it again. Yesterday in the most important regional elections in Germany this year, her party ousted the incumbent Social Democrat/Green party coalition in Germany’s most populous region: North Rhine-Westphalia. One […]
There were some regional elections last Sunday in the northernmost region of Germany; Schleswig-Holstein, which is up near Denmark. These were overshadowed by Macron’s election, it must be admitted. In these local elections, Merkel’s CDU […]
