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Analyses | | Justyna Gotkowska, Jakub Graca

The German Brigade Lithuania

On 18 December in Vilnius, Boris Pistorius and Arvydas Anušauskas, the defence ministers of Germany and Lithuania, signed the so-called roadmap for the deployment of a German brigade in Lithuania (‘Brigade Lithuania’). Its headquarters…
Analyses | | Lidia Gibadło

Germany boosts its funding for military support to Ukraine

According to the coalition government’s compromise on the 2024 budget (see ‘Germany: the budget crisis has been resolved’), Germany will raise its funding for military aid to Ukraine from the planned €4 billion to €8 billion in the coming…
Analyses | | Michał Kędzierski

Germany a huge contract for Norwegian gas

On 19 December 2023, Securing Energy for Europe (SEFE), a German state-controlled gas company, signed a long-term contract with the Norwegian Equinor energy company to supply 111 TWh of gas annually in the period from 2024 to 2034 (which…
Analyses | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Germany the budget crisis has been resolved

It took almost a month for Germany’s ruling coalition to decide on how to adjust the country’s financial plans for 2024 to the ruling passed by the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC).
Analyses | | Sebastian Płóciennik

The consequences of the Constitutional Courts ruling Ways out of the German fiscal crisis

In its ruling on 15 November 2023, Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) has challenged the methods of funding the federal government’s expenditure, thus forcing the coalition parties to seek ways out of this difficult situation.…
Analyses | | Kamil Frymark

Germany a major drop in the number of illegal migrants crossing the Polish border

Since 16 October, regular random checks have been carried out at Germany’s borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. Controls on the border with Austria, which were temporarily introduced in 2015, have also been extended.…
Analyses | | Michał Kędzierski

Germany the next steps in designing the hydrogen network

On 10 November the Bundestag adopted an amendment to the Energy Industry Act (Energiewirtschaftsgesetz, EnWG), a crucial part of which were regulations regarding the planning and approval of the so-called core hydrogen network (Wasserstoff…
Analyses | | Michał Kędzierski, Sebastian Płóciennik

Germany the Constitutional Court deprives the government of €60 billion earmarked for transformation

On 15 November the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) in Karlsruhe ruled that the reallocation of the unused debt from the pandemic support measures to the Energy and Climate Fund (currently known as the Climate and Transformation Fund;…
Analyses | | Kamil Frymark

Germany Law on the financing of party foundations

On 10 November, the Bundestag passed a law for the first time in history concerning the funding of foundations affiliated to political parties. The regulations received support from all the parliamentary groups except the AfD, whose…
Analyses | | Kamil Frymark

The Wagenknecht party Germanys new protest party

On 23 October, Sahra Wagenknecht, the former chairwoman of the Die Linke parliamentary group, announced that a new party would be set up based on the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht–for Reason and Justice (BSW) association which was registered…