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Analyses |
| Michał Kędzierski
On 26 April, the Bundestag passed an amendment to the Climate Change Act (German: Klimaschutzgesetz), which sets out the objectives and mechanisms of Germany’s climate policy; the ruling SPD-Green-FDP coalition voted in favour of it.…
Analyses |
| Michał Kędzierski
On 26 April, the Bundesrat approved the amendment to the Energy Industry Act (Energiewirtschaftsgesetz), which the Bundestag had adopted two weeks earlier. The main part of this amendment was the regulation for financing the establishment…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 23 April, Jian Guo, a long-term assistant to Maximilian Krah, who tops the list of the AfD’s candidates in the European Parliament (EP) elections, was arrested in Dresden on a charge of spying for China. During his career at the EP (…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 12 April, the Bundestag enacted a law which facilitates the procedure for modifying one’s gender in official registers. Starting from 1 November, transgender and intersex individuals, as well as those who identify themselves as neither…
Analyses |
| Lidia Gibadło, Paulina Uznańska
Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) went on a three-day visit to China on 14–16 April. He met the Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Qiang in Beijing; he also visited Chongqing, an important automotive production hub, as…
Analyses |
| Lidia Gibadło, Justyna Gotkowska
During a press conference on 4 April, Germany’s defence minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) unveiled a plan for restructuring the Bundeswehr. The proposals mainly involve structural modifications and are intended to boost the German Armed…
OSW Commentary |
| Lidia Gibadło
The news that Donald Trump is almost certain to be the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee has sparked a debate in Germany about the country’s future cooperation with the US. At present, concern about sustaining American…
OSW Commentary |
| Michał Kędzierski
Germany has launched the implementation of a new, innovative programme to support the decarbonisation of its energy-intensive industries. The use of the so-called carbon contracts for difference will, for the first time, make it possible…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark, Lidia Gibadło
On 14 March, the Bundestag once again rejected the motion tabled by the CDU/CSU parliamentary group to approve a decision to transfer Taurus long-range cruise missiles to Kyiv. During the discussion regarding this issue, the head of the…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Frymark, Anna Kwiatkowska
Commissioned by the German state, a German-Polish House is to be built in Berlin. This concept is the result of a debate lasting several years about whether it would be legitimate for the German capital to see the creation of a monument to…