Archive: Feb 2018

Too soon for champagne toasts to GroKo

The grand coalition treaty is strongly pro-European in tone, but the devil is in the details – and it could yet be rejected by SPD members

May unwavering in China

Even though the UK is currently weakened by Brexit, May showed true British stubborness during her visit in China and did not bow down to their demands

Kosovo’s path to independence

Kosovo’s independence has become an irreversible fact, even if Serbia, Russia, and some other countries persist in their denial of reality

The Brexit threat to Britain’s defence industry

Last September, the UK published a remarkable paper on how it sees future foreign policy and defence relations with the EU after Brexit. Successive British…