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OSW Commentary | | Kamil Frymark, Anna Kwiatkowska

A German house Controversy over commemoration of the Polish victims of the Second World War

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…
OSW Report | | Anna Kwiatkowska, Kamil Frymark, Michał Kędzierski, Lidia Gibadło, Sebastian Płóciennik, Justyna Gotkowska

Making up for lost time. Germany in the era of the Zeitenwende

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OSW Commentary | | Anna Kwiatkowska

The German perfect model on credit

Germany is slowly recovering from the shock caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It has defined the processes that will help it to revise what had once appeared to be the perfect model of policy making and doing business. So far, it…
Point of View | | Anna Kwiatkowska

Cinderella became the Empress. How Merkel has changed Germany

Angela Merkel is the first woman to climb to the top of German politics. Step by step, to the surprise of her male rivals inside the party, she took over the leadership on the political scene of Germany, and then of the European Union.…
Point of View | | Anna Kwiatkowska

Strangers like us. Germans in the search for a new identity

The decision to leave the borders open, the influx of more than one million people to Germany and the resulting migration crisis in late 2015 and early 2016 were formative experiences for the current political class in Germany and have…
OSW Commentary | | Anna Kwiatkowska, Kamil Frymark

Germany in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict a political or a humanitarian mission

Since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, profound changes in Germany’s thinking about Russia can be observed.
OSW Commentary | | Konrad Popławski, Anna Kwiatkowska

The German reaction to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict – shock and disbelief

The crisis in Ukraine have brought about a situation in which it is necessary for Germany to make decisions and take action. No one in Berlin was prepared for this.
Point of View | | Anna Kwiatkowska

Germany on Russia Yes to links no to rapprochement

Germany at this stage seems to have no idea of what the long-term strategy of co-operation with Putin's Russia should be.
OSW Report | | Marta Zawilska-Florczuk, Konrad Popławski, Anna Kwiatkowska, Piotr Buras

Germanys energy transformation difficult beginnings

Zainicjowana  w maju 2011 roku, kilka miesięcy po awarii elektrowni atomowej w Fukushimie transformacja energetyczna RFN przedstawiana jest jako decyzja ostateczna, a ze względu na narzucone tempo zmian stanowi nową jakość w strategii…
OSW Commentary | | Anna Kwiatkowska, Konrad Mazur

The expensive energy revolution in Germany The implementation of the Energiewende is behind schedule

One year after the events of Fukushima the implementation of the new German energy strategy adopted in the summer of 2011 is being verified.