On October 23-24, 2015, RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev was in Berlin at
conference
“Back to the Future? Ideas and Strategies of retrograde Modernization in Russia and Post-Soviet Space” organized by the
German Association of East European Studies
within project network “Institutions and Institutional Change in Postsocialism.”
The event was attended by prominent scholars and experts from West and East Europe, among them President of Munich Security Conference Wolfgang...
In July 2015, during a meeting with students at the Paul Friedrich Scheel school in Rostock, the Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany could not manage to take every refugee, making Palestinian refugee children cry. However, in mid-September 2015 the German government announced the suspension of the Dublin Regulation, and opened its doors to Syrian refugees. “There is no ...
... with Russia, the United States, Britain, China and France…
Question:
With the right to veto?
Sergey Lavrov:
As I’ve already said, India and Brazil are making claims to this status and we consider them fully worthy and very strong rivals. Germany and Japan are also making claims to this status. The Four have launched a serious campaign to support their claims and applications, and urge others to vote for this from time to time. The UN Charter requires that such issues be resolved by two ...
... longitudes 142°E and 160°E.
France that in 1924 declared the establishment of Adelie Land between longitudes 136°E and 42°E, and in 1955 also set up a special administrative entity – the French Southern and Antarctic Territories.
Germany that in 1939 declared the creation of New Swabia between longitudes 10°W and 20°E.
Norway that in 1927-1929 proclaimed sovereignty over Peter I island, Bouvet Island and adjacent territories (Bouvet Sector), and in 1939 – over Queen ...
... led us to believe that we would benefit without Greece in the Eurozone, that this would cost us less. I believe that this is a distorted view. It is not right morally, as this would be the beginning of decline. No one will know what would happen next. Germany has taken a leading role in Europe, but it’s not at all a positive role in this case,” Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann told the Austrian national daily Der Standard.
Austria is Germany’s closest and most reliable ally in the ...
Over the past few days, the political landscape in Germany has shifted once again. The “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) party, which had been making waves following the state elections to the Landtags of Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, has quite definitively been split into two separate political ...
... call this process “weird”? First because of the text that is to be signed by the European parliaments. This piece of paper is not the end of the story between Greece and its creditors. On the contrary, it is a new start for both Greece and Germany as well as Europe more generally. The second reason is due to the process of negotiations itself. However, since the E.U. is a “family”, the use of threats and blackmail was too obvious. Nonetheless, these main questions should not ...
... another debtor will refuse to continue and will opt for its own route outside the Eurozone.
German Hegemony
The negotiations in Brussels this past weekend highlight the division growing in Europe. The regional north-south divide remains strong, however Germany's extremely demanding position has threatened to split the traditional Franco-German alliance.
In previous iterations of the crisis, in 2010 and 2011, or in 2013, cooperation between Paris and Berlin was imperative for the EU to move forward....
... dwelling upon the extremely difficult and delicate Ukrainian issue for over a year now. And no one knows for how long this matter will determine the Russia-West relations. Mass media are overwhelmed with various suggestions and prognosis for the future. Germany has for long been one of the closest Russian partners in the EU. Now Berlin and Moscow are experiencing one of the coldest periods of their friendship. RIAC has asked one of the German prominent experts,
Andreas Metz
, Director of Communications ...
... most viable issue.
Keeping the eurozone alive is the unique benefit for all the actors.
After six years of economic depression, Greece underlines that its economic incapacity has been misperceived by its partners. The European states and especially Germany have been regarding the Greek issue as a “special circumstance”, especially after PSI. Is Greece a special circumstance? And on what terms? Typically Greece belongs to the club of developed countries. The paradox with Greece is that ...
