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.
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.
Foreign minister Stavros Lambrinidis solicits confidence
The Russia-EU energy relationship on trial
