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Analyses | | Artur Ciechanowicz
The Institute of Contemporary History in Munich (IfZ) has published a report entitled ‘Activists with a past’ on the Nazi past of the first activists of the Federation of Expellees (BdV), which was established in 1957. Historians’ findings…
Analyses | | Artur Ciechanowicz
The second German-Chinese intergovernmental consultations took place on 30 August. Chancellor Angela Merkel was accompanied in Beijing by a delegation of more than one hundred people, including seven ministers, two secretaries of state and…
Analyses | | Artur Ciechanowicz
On 30th July Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU), the German Minister of Interior Affairs, dismissed all the heads of the Federal Police (Bundespolizei), which was established in 2005 from the renaming the Border Guard (Bundesgrenzschutz) and is…
OSW Commentary | | Artur Ciechanowicz, Rafał Sadowski
Following the victories of François Hollande in the presidential election and the Socialist Party in the parliamentary election, the existing model of relations between Germany and France as symbolised by the Merkel-Sarkozy duo is…
Analyses | | Artur Ciechanowicz
Nine European ministers of foreign affairs met on 20 March in Berlin upon invitation from their German counterpart, Guido Westerwelle. The  aim of the meeting was to discuss ‘the future of the European Union’, a more efficient operation…
Analyses | | 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…
Analyses | | Artur Ciechanowicz
This came as a response to the publication of information in the media concerning the operation of a gang of three people, so far unidentified by the police, who murdered nine immigrants and one policewoman between 2000 and 2007.…
Analyses | | Artur Ciechanowicz
The report's key conclusion is that anti-Semitism is deeply rooted and widespread in German society; however, the force of the phenomenon has significantly diminished since the beginning of the first decade of the new century.
Analyses | | Artur Ciechanowicz
On 16 September at the Investment Forum in Sochi, Russia's Gazprom, Italy's ENI, France's EdF and Germany's Wintershall (a daughter company of BASF) concluded an agreement to found a company for South Stream Transport (SST), the future…
Analyses | | Artur Ciechanowicz
The foreign ministers of Germany and Egypt met at consultations on 12 August in Berlin. Mohamed Kamel Amr, the new foreign minister of Egypt, went on his first foreign visit to Turkey and Germany. This is an effect of Berlin’s active…