Geoeconomics

G7 Resources and Energy Trade

Geoeconomics – one of DGAP’s core themes – explores how the politics of trade, technology, finance, and/or energy can be employed to achieve strategic goals. For Europe to remain a key player internationally, the continent must help define the rules of a new geoeconomic world order. DGAP looks at how Germany can contribute to better positioning Europe in this increasingly competitive landscape.

Recent publications

Germany’s omerta on the debt brake is costing it dearly

The country’s fiscal rules stifle much-needed investment and create perverse incentives for its European partners. What is clear is that the fiscal status quo is unsustainable. It undermines Germany’s growth prospects, makes a defence build-up impossible, damages the social fabric and threatens an already-fragile political stability.

Shahin Vallée