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OSW Report | | Konrad Popławski, Rafał Bajczuk
For several decades industry has been the strength of the German economy. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, characterised by the wide use of the internet &digital technologies in all spheres of the economy, is transforming the market…
OSW Commentary | | Justyna Gotkowska
This year’s Munich Security Conference has laid bare the differences in the US and German visions of international order and security in speeches given by Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Vice President Mike Pence. Germany fundamentally…
Analyses | | Agata Łoskot-Strachota
On 20 February, the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU Council (COREPER) endorsed a compromise version of the amendments to the gas directive which had been agreed a week earlier during the tripartite ‘trilogue’ meeting with…
Analyses | | Kamil Frymark
The Federal Cartel Office (FCO) on 7 February ordered the social networking portal Facebook to change its practices of obtaining user data from external sources (websites and applications other than Facebook). In the FCO’s opinion,…
Analyses | | Rafał Bajczuk
On 26 January, the Commission for Growth, Structural Economic Change and Regional Development (also known as the coal commission commission) published its final report on Germany’s plan to give up the use of hard coal and brown coal as…
Analyses | | Rafał Bajczuk
On 15 January Angela Merkel and members of her government held a meeting in the Chancellor’s Office with the prime ministers of the federal states where mines and brown-coal power plants are sited (Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia,…
Analyses | | Kamil Frymark
On 6 January, Germany’s Federal Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA) detained a person suspected of posting information online concerning about a thousand German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, as well as artists and…