... geopolitical crises. To maintain technological leadership, horizontal locational conditions need be improved: taxation, regulation, energy supply, and skilled labour. Local-content criteria could provide incentives for increased domestic production in Germany and the European Union.
Export dependencies, especially on the United States, should be reduced, and alternative sales markets opened. Free trade agreements can help minimize economic risks from trade conflicts.
Germany is one of the largest providers of international ...
... facilities.
In contrast to Ukraine, Greenland's cost and time factor for extracting these raw material deposits is very high. There is still a long way off.
Warmongering, mass hysteria and propaganda
"The Russians are coming, Russia is going to invade Germany!" These voices have been haunting the German population since February 2022.
Old fears have also been flaring up again in Poland and Lithuania, causing borders to be once more closed and massively fortified, such as with the construction ...
... bold escalation in U.S. trade policy, imposing a baseline 10% tariff on all imports and a specific 20% tariff on goods from the European Union (EU), up from the previous average tariff rate of 3.5%. [
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] Framed as a countermeasure to persistent trade imbalances,... ... foundations, the Mar-a-Lago Accords, and broader implications and consequences of the U.S. retreat for U.S. allies, particularly Germany.
Trade Imbalances and Justifications
The United States currently runs a current account [
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... Sanctions. What's New?
But what should be done if a Russian citizen imports this or that product for personal use? The most obvious example is entering the EU in a private car. At the beginning of July this year, German customs explained that
entering Germany by car is regarded as grounds for arrest.
In fact, German customs proceeded from the fact that Art. 3i of Regulation 833/2014 does not provide any exceptions for goods for personal use. It contains Clause 3a, which allows import for such use by ...
... developments around Ukraine, but did not lead to satisfactory results for the EU.
Given that the pan-European line is acquiring a distinct protective character, it could be amended by the member states that are the stakeholders of the dialogue, primarily Germany. The government of Olaf Scholz was destined to make unplanned strategic decisions regarding all the main partners outside the EU — the USA, Russia and China. This could have fundamental consequences for European-Chinese relations.
The role of ...
... Russia
On May 5, 2022, Igor Ivanov, RIAC President, had a meeting with French Ambassador Pierre Levy and German Ambassador Geza Andreas von Geyr at the French Embassy in Russia.
The meeting addressed the prospects in relations between Russia and the European Union against the backdrop of the ongoing special military operation on the territory of Ukraine. The issues of the current French Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the priorities of Emmanuel Macron's second presidential term ...
... energy demand without producing the high environmental impact of other fossil fuel alternatives, such as coal, oil, or gas.
The European Union’s strategy for the green transition will most likely depend on what narrative of the dichotomy will prevail on ... ... states, the strategies proposed to attain climate neutrality lack a cost-benefit analysis on the feasibility of such changes.
Germany’s energy mix is currently the most polluting one in the entire Union. In 2020, Germany emitted 604.8 million metric ...
... appreciated the initial initiative by France back in 2014 to use this Normandy gathering to set up a negotiating format, which we hoped would facilitate progress along the implementation of the Minsk agreements. Unfortunately, the efforts of France and Germany over all these years were not sufficient to persuade Kyiv to implement the Minsk agreements. I can refer to the very last meeting of the political advisors of the Normandy leaders in Berlin, a couple of weeks ago, where the Ukraine representatives ...
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Angela Merkel’s sixteen years as German chancellor have shaped Berlin’s place and role in Europe and in the twenty-first-century world at large. Her legacy will live on long after she steps down from the leadership. While firmly embedded within the European Union, Germany has essentially become its sole, though by no means, absolute leader. It is a peaceful champion of a soft European version of liberalism. Vocal support for values does not, however, translate into interventionism. Nor does it prevent Germany from ...
The meeting agenda covers the latest international events affecting relations between Russia and the European Union, and the prospects for the development of bilateral cooperation in various fields
On August 27–29, 2021, Salzburg (Austria) is hosting a regular hybrid meeting of DER-Dialog-Europe-Russia Advisory Board, that meets twice a year under ...
