EU Trade Policy Must Focus on Market Openness and New Partnerships
Trade is the most important pillar of the EU’s dealings with third countries. To maintain this, the EU must refocus its trade policy on openness and partnerships. The new Commission needs to engage on all outstanding FTAs and consider pragmatic mini deals. Regardless of the outcome of the US elections, the EU needs to keep the United States as a partner and offer it potential opportunities. On a multilateral level, the WTO should be kept alive, focusing on trust building while advancing plurilateral deals.
Building Energy Institutions in a Conflict Zone
Berlin’s Holiday (from History) Mood
Germany is spending the summer trying to temporarily ignore the situation in Ukraine. That’s likely to backfire. Rather, the German government and the rest of Europe should signal stronger, not weaker, support for Ukraine.
Upgrading EU-Central Asia Cooperation
Why Germany Can and Should Increase Defense Spending
The constraints on higher German defense spending are primarily political and legal, not economic or financial.
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Gibt es Hoffnung für den Nahen Osten? (mit Muriel Asseburg)
Von einem „existenziellen Konflikt, in dem beide Seiten das ganze Territorium beanspruchen und die legitimen Ansprüche der anderen Seite nicht mehr akzeptieren“, spricht die Nahostexpertin Muriel Asseburg. Wie lässt sich noch über Frieden in Nahost diskutieren, allem Leid, aller Zerstörung, allem Hass zum Trotz?
