È tempo per un’Europa geopolitica: la risposta tedesca a Macron
È tempo che Parigi e Berlino uniscano le forze per rafforzare l'Europa dall’interno, garantendole un ruolo in un mondo di rinnovate competizioni
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.
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
The Strait of Hormuz: A matter of European policy and European solidarity
Europe needs to ensure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz independently of the US - and avoid escalating conflict
Un nuevo comienzo para la defensa europea
Es hora de dejar a un lado la integración institucional y desarrollar capacidades prácticas de seguridad europea
A New Beginning for European Defence
It is time to move past institutional integration and develop practical European security capabilities
Un nouveau départ pour la défense européenne
Il est temps de développer des capacités de sécurité européennes pratiques au lieu de se concentrer sur l'intégration institutionnelle
Ein neuer Aufbruch für europäische Verteidigung
Europa muss praktische europäische Sicherheitsfähigkeiten entwickeln und sich weniger auf institutionelle Integration konzentrieren
L’Europe doit sortir de son silence sur la Syrie
Les membres du conseil de l'ECFR appellent les Etats européens à envoyer une aide aérienne d'urgence à Alep et à appliquer des sanctions supplémentaires à l'encontre de la Russie pour complicité de crimes de guerre.
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
L’euro: irréversible mais pas indestructible
L'évolution de l’Europe, qui est vitale à notre survie, ne peut être maintenue sans surmonter l’obstacle que représente la crise économique grecque
Articles
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
The Strait of Hormuz: A matter of European policy and European solidarity
Europe needs to ensure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz independently of the US - and avoid escalating conflict
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