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OSW Commentary |
| Ryszarda Formuszewicz, Kamil Frymark
Both German politicians and commentators have been talking about the extraordinary importance of the forthcoming European Parliament elections for the future of the EU. The expected decline in support for the Christian Democrats and Social…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Frymark
The streets of Germany’s biggest cities are increasingly witnessing frequent anti-Semitic incidents. Despite the fact that Germany regards the fight against anti-Semitism as part and parcel of its domestic policy, in recent years Jews…
OSW Studies |
| Kamil Frymark
On the political map of Germany, the CSU presents itself as the only authentic party with a right-wing profile, treating groups further to its right as extreme and undemocratic.
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
The Federal Cartel Office (FCO) on 7 February ordered the social networking portal Facebook to change its practices of obtaining user data from external sources (websites and applications other than Facebook). In the FCO’s opinion,…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 6 January, Germany’s Federal Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA) detained a person suspected of posting information online concerning about a thousand German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, as well as artists and…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
The focus of the CDU’s party congress in Hamburg (6-8 December) will be the election of a new leader. The best chances to take over as head of the party from Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has exercised this function for 18 years, are…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 6 November in the Bavarian parliament, a coalition of the CSU and the Free Voters (Freie Wähler, FW) re-elected the Bundesland’s former Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) for another term. The coalition has a majority of 112 out of 205…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 14 October residents of Bavaria, one of Germany’s richest federal states, elected 205 members of the local parliament. First place was once again taken - unalterably since 1954 - by the CSU, which garnered 37.2% of the votes. However,…
OSW Commentary |
| Kamil Frymark
The Christian Social Union (CSU) has ruled Bavaria continuously for sixty years. The CSU’s domination of the province’s political scene, together with its influence on federal policies through its partnership with the CDU in the Bundestag…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark, Mateusz Chudziak
On 27-29 September, the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan paid a state visit to Berlin, where he met President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Angela Merkel. Their discussions focused on the economy, migration, the fight…