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Analyses | | Sebastian Płóciennik

The debt brake is back the German government presents a draft budget

After weeks of negotiations, the government coalition has reached a compromise on the draft budget for 2024. On 5 July, a 1364-page document was signed estimating that spending will reach €445.7 billion, and the new debt will stand at €16.…
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…
Analyses | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Deutsche Banks roller coaster on the stock market

On 24 March shares in Deutsche Bank (DB), one of Europe’s largest credit institutions, plunged 14%. The flight by investors sparked speculation about whether the German bank was still on a stable footing, or whether it was in danger of…
Analyses | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Lex Huawei Germany is tightening control over 5G

According to media reports, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community (BMI, Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat) has ordered telecommunications service providers to submit a list of devices used in the network…
Analyses | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Back to discipline How Germany views the reform of EU budgetary rules

One of the topics to be discussed at the European Council on 23–24 March 2023 is the reform of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), a system of rules aimed at maintaining the fiscal discipline of EU member states. These rules have for…
Analyses | | Sebastian Płóciennik

The European Green Deal Industrial Plan is Germany ready to accept more interventionism

The Green Deal Industrial Plan (GDIP), an economic support programme aimed at stepping up the energy and technological transformation in Europe, was presented by the European Commission in early February. It is assumed that the…
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…
Analyses | | Sebastian Płóciennik

The German dilemma Berlins response to the trade conflict with the USA

In August, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), one of the largest initiatives of this kind in recent years. Its name emphasises the importance of fighting inflation. The financing of investments in low-emission…
Analyses | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Germany dispute over benefits rules for the long-term unemployed

The German government has proposed reforming the support for the long-term unemployed – currently known as “unemployment benefit II” (Arbeitslosengeld II) or Hartz IV. The new system, which is scheduled to take effect in early 2023, will…
Analyses | | Sebastian Płóciennik

Selling shares in the Hamburg terminal Scholz does not want a clash with China

The ruling coalition in Germany, which has been struggling in recent months with the dilemma of how to combat the energy crisis while supporting Ukraine, now finds itself in another dispute. It concerns plans by the Chinese shipping…