Time for a geopolitical Europe: A German answer to Macron
It is time for Paris and Berlin to join together to strengthen Europe internally, securing its place in a world of renewed competition
Experts & Staff
Norbert Röttgen
ECFR co-chair
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag
Biography
Norbert Röttgen is Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag and has been a Member of the German Parliament since 1994. He served as German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety, as well as Legal Policy Spokesman and later as Chief Parliamentary Secretary of the Christian Democratic Party’s parliamentary group. His 2008 speech on the financial crisis in front of the Bundestag was awarded as “best political speech of the year”. Röttgen holds a PhD in law from Bonn University.
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A New Beginning for European Defence
It is time to move past institutional integration and develop practical European security capabilities
Europe must end its silence on Syria
ECFR Council members call for European states to provide emergency airlift services in Aleppo and implement additional sanctions on Russia for its complicity in war crimes
The euro: irreversible – but not indestructible
Europe’s evolution, which is vital for our survival, can only be continued by overcoming the obstacle which the Greek crisis represents
In the media
If a moratorium could be reached to negotiate the ban on energy as a political weapon, then the possibility of a permanent cooperative framework with the EU and the US could be created
ECFR Board member Norbert Röttgen on a ban on energy as a political weapon in the context of EU-Russia relations