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| Konrad Popławski
On 16 June, the leadership of the SPD announced an agreement to ratify the treaty on the European Stabilisation Mechanism (EMS) and the fiscal pact. Both instruments are crucial in the government's strategy for fighting the crisis in the…
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| Konrad Popławski
The political events of recent weeks have brought about new threats to the ratification of the fiscal compact in Germany and other EU countries.
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| Konrad Popławski
The German government adopted a draft amendment of this year’s budget and updated its spending plan for 2012–2016. Germany intends to observe the ‘budget brake’ rule, which imposes the obligation to keep the structural deficit at a level…
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| Konrad Mazur, Konrad Popławski
Vattenfall (accounting for 89% of electricity produced in Germany) published their financial results for 2011. Vattenfall incurred losses of 2.6 billion euros, for E.ON the losses amounted to 2.2 billion euros. RWE and EnBW also ended…
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| Artur Ciechanowicz, Konrad Popławski
The German political elite not only continue to support specific actions taken by representatives of business circles but are also adding strategic political concepts to their activity. On the one hand, these concepts are aimed at…
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| Anna Kwiatkowska, Konrad Popławski
On 8 February at the session of the Commission for European Union, Michael Link (FDP), secretary of state at the Foreign Ministry, acting on behalf of the German government ensured that the fiscal pact agreed on 30 January was still only…
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| Konrad Popławski
The cyclic German-French intergovernmental consultations took place in Paris on 6 February. Among the issues Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and ministers from both cabinets were discussing were: the situation in Syria and Iran, the…
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| Konrad Popławski
During her visit to China (1–3 February), the German chancellor attempted to convince the Chinese government to become engaged in assistance for the eurozone. The German chancellor during her meetings with the prime minister and the…
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| Konrad Popławski
On 30 January at the EU summit the leaders of 25 member states (except for the UK and the Czech Republic) agreed on the signing of the fiscal pact advocated by Germany. The pact will sanction new fiscal restrictions and the possibility…
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| Konrad Popławski
The latest proposal of the fiscal agreement which is to reform the eurozone appeared in the German media on 12 January. While the common arrangements in the previous version had been referred to as a ‘fiscal agreement’, the new one has…