A new government in Berlin is always a new opportunity — not only for Germany itself, but also for its international partners, Russia including
I understand the fundamentals. Russia lost Germany back in 2014 or even earlier. Seventy-three years after the end of WW2 and twenty-eight years after the reunification, the new generation of Germans owes Russian nothing. After the Ukrainian crisis, no ‘business as usual’ is possible in any foreseeable future; Moscow and Berlin continue to sharply disagree on many critically important international matters. Germany is and will always be a disciplined member of NATO and that ...
The latest G7 summit was held at the picturesque Schloss Elmau in Bavaria on June 8, 2015. Russia, which is no longer a club member, this time cemented the G7 countries as a common enemy, and even brought back the importance ... ... by conceding to Putin.
AP / Sergei Chuzavkov
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Kiev
before heading to the summit in Germany
This is why a comparison between the following events is intriguing. On the one hand, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and a host ...
Germany ready to continue the joint search for the crisis settlement
On Thursday 4 December 2014 the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation reported
that “Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, who had arrived in Basel to take part in the work of the OSCE summit, had a meeting with Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Minister for Foreign Affairs ...