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OSW Commentary | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Engaging the private sector Germanys plan for the reconstruction of Ukraine

Berlin believes that the reconstruction and post-war development of Ukraine should involve not only enhancing the country’s integration with the EU market and implementing institutional reforms but also increasing engagement by the private…
OSW Commentary | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Fear of retaliation Germanys concerns about punitive tariffs on electric cars from China

The European Union is nearing a decision on whether to impose restrictions on imports of electric cars from China. The German automotive industry is observing this scenario with apprehension as it expects both retaliation from the…
OSW Commentary | | Sebastian Płóciennik

A shadow budget Germany increases spending through special funds

Germany has found itself in a stalemate between its strict budgetary rules and the need to fight the economic crisis, cushion rising energy costs and earmark more funds for public investment. To tackle this challenge, it has decided to…
OSW Commentary | | Sebastian Płóciennik, Lidia Gibadło

A key state India is gaining significance as a political and economic partner for Germany

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to India in February this year was unlike his other foreign trips. This visit was important not only politically but also economically: the German chancellor was accompanied by managers of companies such as…
OSW Commentary | | Lidia Gibadło, Sebastian Płóciennik

Europes engine seizing up French-German relations during the polycrisis

The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have highlighted the differences in interests between Paris and Berlin, and caused tension to accumulate in their bilateral relations. The significance of this tension goes beyond the purely…
OSW Commentary | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Germany and the crisis of globalisation adjustment strategies

Germany is among the biggest beneficiaries of the global economic system based on free trade and on cross-border organisation of production. However, the functioning of this system has been recently disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic,…
OSW Commentary | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Germany and the trade conflict between Lithuania China

The Chinese government’s trade boycott of Lithuania risks causing economic losses for Germany and weakening the cohesion of the EU’s common market. However, Berlin is unlikely to take any decisive actions – such as pushing through…
OSW Commentary | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Digitalisation in Germany an overview and what lies behind the delays

The adaptation of the economy and the state to new information technologies – next to the energy transformation (Energiewende) – is viewed as one of the greatest civilisational challenges Germany is currently facing. However, progress in…