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    Constanze Stelzenmüller

    Constanze Stelzenmüller writes commentary on global affairs for the Financial Times. An expert on German, European, and transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy, she is currently the Fritz Stern Chair and a senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution.

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    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      US and Germany risk owning Ukraine’s stalling war effort

      The onus is on European allies to step up support and chart a path for Kyiv towards Nato and EU membership

      Olaf Schholz and Joe Biden at the G7 in June 2022
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Europe
      Relations between Warsaw and Berlin deteriorate as Polish elections near

      This key relationship within Europe is mired in hate, lies and condescension

      Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, at a press conference this month
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      German politics
      How a regional poll turned into a debate about Germany’s past and future

      An antisemitism scandal has derailed Christian Democrat hopes for forthcoming elections

      Hubert Aiwanger smiles and holds his hands aloft with a hooded peregrine falcon sitting on his right hand
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      Alternative für Deutschland
      Mainstream German parties have made it too easy for the far-right AfD

      The party is becoming more disciplined as it senses power in some eastern states is within reach

      Maximilian Krah, leading pick of the AfD for the European parliament elections, calls the EU a ‘vassal’ of the US and wants to replace it with a ‘confederacy of fatherlands’
    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      German politics
      Germany finds that on defence, growing up is hard to do

      The country’s first ever national security strategy is a mixture of good and bad news

      A female army recruit of the Bundeswehr, Germany’s armed forces, takes part in basic training last November near Prenzlau
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      OutlookWar in Ukraine
      Viewed from Kyiv, Europe’s strengths and weaknesses are painfully visible

      A recent trip to the city demonstrated the power of the Ukrainians and the pettiness of EU political squabbles

      Pedestrians are shaken by the blast from a drone strike in Kyiv, where the city’s 3mn citizens endure the attacks with stoic resolve
    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      German politics
      Germany’s China dilemma takes on a new urgency

      The race is on in Berlin to reduce exposure to the country’s most important trading partner

      Annalena Baerbock and Qin Gang stand at podiums in front of German and Chinese flags
    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      German politics
      A reckoning on Germany’s Russia policy is long overdue

      The invasion of Ukraine has made a proper accounting of ties between Berlin and Moscow more urgent than ever

      Lars Klingbeil and Rolf Mützenich meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre, in Kyiv earlier this month
    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      German politics
      Germany’s policy shift is real but still falls short

      While Olaf Scholz has successfully changed the domestic debate about security, a sense of urgency is lacking

      Olaf Scholz addresses the Bundestag in Berlin last week
    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      German politics
      Scholz is a wartime chancellor, whether he likes it or not

      The German leader and his new defence minister have a big decision to make on supplying tanks to Ukraine

      Members of the Bundeswehr’s 9th Panzer Training Brigade with one of the Leopard 2 A7V heavy battle tanks received during a visit by then defence minister Christine Lambrecht to the Bundeswehr Army training grounds, with a Puma infantry fighting vehicle (L) and a Leopard 2A6 behind, in February 2022 in Munster, Germany
    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      The west’s axis of prudence risks a Kremlin victory by default in Ukraine

      Putin’s relentless missile strikes on infrastructure indicate that mere containment of Russia will not achieve a secure peace

      Joe Biden (R) talks to Emmanuel Macron (C) and Olaf Scholz (L) before the opening ceremony of the G20 leaders’ summit in Indonesia last month
    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine crisis could transform the future of neutrality

      Switzerland is not the only European government being forced to re-examine the status quo

      A Swiss Army tank is seen during a live-fire exercise at Swiss Army armoured school of Thoune, in March 2018
    • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Russia may prefer sabotage of critical infrastructure over nuclear weapons

      Attacks on gas pipelines, train networks and airport computer systems underline the risks spreading from war in Ukraine

      A gas leak from Nord Stream 1 is seen in the Swedish economic zone in the Baltic Sea in this picture taken from the Swedish Coast Guard aircraft last month
    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
      German politics
      Germany must shake off its habit of finding excuses for inaction

      If the government is serious about its leadership role in Europe, it should step up its military aid for Ukraine

    • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
      German economy
      Germany is now the fulcrum for Vladimir Putin’s pressure

      Berlin is bracing for severe recession and economic turbulence as Russia cuts its gas supplies

      German chancellor Olaf Scholz in front of the gas turbine. Moscow’s message to Berlin is simple: turn on Nord Stream 2, or your economy gets it
    • Sunday, 17 July, 2022
      EU energy
      A German gas crisis will cause jitters across Europe

      As Russia seeks to make others pay the price for its war in Ukraine, an EU-wide energy security strategy is needed

      A gas receiving station of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in Lubmin, Germany. Being asked for solidarity by Germany after seeing it pursue its national economic interest for years may be a step too far for many EU states
    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      German politics
      Merkel’s lack of regrets illustrates the fallacies of Germany’s Russia policy

      For far too long politicians, businesspeople and voters refused to face up to the ominous nature of Putin’s style of rule

      Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow in August last year
    • Sunday, 24 April, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Germany has a special responsibility to stop Putin’s evil

      Hesitant military support for Ukraine is exposing weaknesses in the SPD-led coalition and government structures

      German Chancellor Olaf Scholz poses for pictures
    • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
      War in Ukraine
      Western leaders must be honest about what it takes to stand up to Putin

      They should also assure the Russian people that their quarrel is not with them but with the man in the Kremlin

      Antiwar protesters in Frankfurt
    • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
      German politics
      Scholz holds his ground in Putin’s den

      Germany’s chancellor and ruling Social Democrats still need to grasp the extent of Moscow’s challenge to European security

      Vladimir Putin and Olaf Scholz sit either side of a long table at the Kremlin
    • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
      EU energy
      Energy trilemma causes a headache for Germany’s new leaders

      Ambitious climate transition plans cannot disguise coalition differences about the nation’s reliance on Russian gas

      Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister
    • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
      Germany
      Germany holds the key to deterring Russian moves against Ukraine

      The Kremlin’s brinkmanship seeks to exploit mixed European perceptions of Moscow’s pressure

      A German soldier of the Bundeswehr patrolling in Prizren in Kosovo, 2004
    • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
      German politics
      Nuclear weapons debate in Germany touches a raw Nato nerve

      Berlin’s allies are concerned that the incoming government may distance itself from the alliance’s deterrence strategy

      A Tornado fighter plane of the German Air Force lands at Büchel airbase
    • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
      German politics
      The world won’t wait for Germany’s coalition negotiators

      A fraying international order requires Berlin to assume more responsibility for European security

      Olaf Scholz, finance minister and presumptive chancellor, was the driving force behind the €750bn European economic recovery programme in spring
    • Tuesday, 31 August, 2021
      Afghanistan
      The war in Afghanistan has shaped an entire generation in the west

      And the fate of the Afghan people will weigh heavily on our collective conscience

      US marines process evacuees at a control centre at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Saturday
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