On May 28, 2014 RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and RIAC expert Andrey Zagorsky, Department Head at IMEMO RAS and MGIMO Professor, met Cord Meier-Klodt, Special Envoy for Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia at the German Foreign Office, Rüdiger Freiherr von Fritsch-Seerhausen, German Ambassador in Russia, as well as Moscow-based German diplomats.
The participants discussed Russian-German relations, Ukraine crisis settlement, outcomes of the European Parliament elections, and future...
On May 27, 2014 in Paris, Dr. Kortunov participated in the closed-door workshop “German, French Polish and Russian Opinions of Russia’s Foreign Policy” organized by the Committee on French-German Relations (
CEFRA
) and the French Institute for International Relations (
IFRI
).
Dr. Kortunov delivered a report on the political dimensions of energy cooperation between Russia and the EU, and later met IFRI Vice-President on Strategic Development Thomas Gomart on future cooperation...
... towards Russia is even more provoking, 60% respondents think that sanctions were sufficient; 34% respondents - the sanktions were and are needless.
There is one more frustrating result of FAZ´ polling among German inhabitants. 15% respondents in Germany are satisfied with German-Russian relation, 76% respondents consider the relationship between both countries as disturbed and in troubles. The number of German inhabitants wishing and searching close relation to Russia goes down. Currently, there ...
In March18, 2014 in Berlin has been presented four scenarios of EU-Ukrainian relation that were developed by a team of 26 civil societies experts, academics and state workers across Ukraine. The event supported by European Council of Foreign Relation www.ecfr.eu and Friedrich-Ebert Foundation www.fes.de and opened a discussion of perspectives, difficulties and trends in modern Ukraine after 2013-2014 Euromaidan revolution. The experts´ team worked since November, 2013 and up to January, 2014...
Although German politicians sighed with relief an agreement on the settlement of crisis in Ukraine, this sense of relief is long gone. Germany saw in the agreement of February 21, 2014 a glimmer of hope and a potential opportunity to settle the conflict and legitimize the country’s new government after an election. According to Germany’s foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier,...
Interview
Germany’s importance on the international scene has been steadily increasing as of late. The German Marshall Fund (GMF), together with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) recently published the report “New Power,...
The prospects of the new team of A. Merkel
A new Big Government coalition has been formed again in the Federal Republic of Germany which comprised the winners of Parliamentary election – CDU/CSU and losing Social Democrats. For the first time in the after-war history the process of coalition negotiations and establishment of the government took so much time. For the ...
Interview
Germany has traditionally been considered one of Russia’s key economic partners. We have met
Michael Harms
, Chairman of the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce, to discuss the future of bilateral trade and economic relations, as well as the modernization ...
More than any other European state, Germany is responsible for developing and implementing the European Union’s (EU’s) policy toward Russia. Berlin needs to accept this responsibility, assume leadership, and develop a Russia policy fit for the twenty-first century. To succeed,...
... Asia-Pacific region has marked an important change in the world balance of power. To withstand competition with China for influence in the region, the United States needs the support of allies, especially of such developed and economically strong countries as Germany. It appears that the U.S. will actively seek to involve Germany in its rivalry with China, given the country’s strong economic, financial and political ties with states in the region.
The Asia-Pacific Region in Germany's New Foreign Policy ...
