Germany’s Zeitenwende: what does it mean for Europe?
German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is facing criticism for not meeting the expectations he created with his Zeitenwende speech. But how fair is this criticism?
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German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is facing criticism for not meeting the expectations he created with his Zeitenwende speech. But how fair is this criticism? Mark Leonard ponders this question and others with some of his German colleagues: ECFR senior policy fellows Janka Oertel and Jana Puglierin, and policy fellow and head of ECFR’s Task Force for Strengthening Europe against Economic Coercion, Jonathan Hackenbroich. How is Germany actually doing in turning round its security and defence policies? And what kind of change is afoot in Germany’s most beloved field, economic policy?
This podcast was recorded on 11 May 2022.
Further reading:
- How Germany can sustain its policy revolution by Rafael Loss, Angela Mehrer
- Zeitenwende: Germany as a pioneer in foreign and security policy?
- The birth of a geopolitical Germany by Jonathan Hackenbroich, Mark Leonard
Bookshelf:
- BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs with Fiona hill
- China’s Ukraine Conundrum. Why the war necessitates a balancing act by Yan Xuetong in Foreign Affairs
- Supchina podcast: Chinese international relations scholar Dingding Chen on Beijing’s position in the Russo-Ukrainian War
- The deluge: The Great War, America and the remaking of the global order, 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
- Ist der Tod kein Meister aus Deutschland mehr? by Andreas Wirsching in Die Zeit
