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Analyses | | Konrad Popławski

The European Commission will scrutinise the German system of renewable energy subsidies

On 22 January, the EU commissioner for energy, Guenther Oettinger, announced that the European Commission would be looking into the German system for supporting the use of renewable energy sources (RES). This task will be entrusted to the…
Analyses | | Kamil Frymark

Success for the SPD in Lower Saxony

The CDU (36% of the vote against 42.5% in the previous election) won the local election in Lower Saxony on 20 January. Together with the FDP (9.9%, previously 8.2%) it gained a total of 68 seats. However, this will not allow the present…
Analyses | | Justyna Gotkowska

Germany is cautious over Mali

On 11 and 13 January the heads of the Federal Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence expressed their support for the French intervention in Mali, describing it as compatible with UN Security Council resolution 2085 RB of 20 December…
Analyses | | Rafał Bajczuk

BGR sees no environmental threat from shale gas extraction in Germany

On 3 January 2013, the economic daily Handelsblatt informed that the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe; BGR) developed an analysis for the Ministry of Economics. The…