The constant focus on the cost of potential measures discount[s] the unimaginable future costs of inaction
Rafael Loss comments on the fact that many German voters don’t want climate protection to affect their personal finances
The constant focus on the cost of potential measures discount[s] the unimaginable future costs of inaction
Rafael Loss comments on the fact that many German voters don’t want climate protection to affect their personal finances
There will be common positions, for example, on issues of a more common European fiscal policy, which Macron has long wanted
Rafael Loss predicts a close relationship between possible Chancellor Scholz and French President Macron
In practice, it will be the SPD and Greens who will set the policy in the long run, but the third government partner will be important for the overall narrative of the political project
Rafael Loss comments on the upcoming German election and argues that the SPD and the Greens will likely shape the main lines of the next government coalition
The composition of the future government will have a major impact on Germany’s future, and the policy guidelines will determine the direction of the next decade
Rafael Loss analyzes how the future of Germany and Europe will look like without Merkel
Europeans need to improve the readiness of their armed forces across the board [but] Afghanistan will probably not move the needle much in terms of public support for raising defence spending
Rafael Loss comments on what the Afghanistan withdrawal will mean for European defence
Rafael Loss looks at what’s at stake in the upcoming German federal elections
The decisions that will be taken in the next four years might mean that we make or break the ambition that we get to net zero by 2050
Rafael Loss looks at what the German elections in September might mean for Europe’s climate policy
I think the Greens might win a couple of percentage points just because climate again is at the centre of the political agenda back to where it was in pre-Covid times
Rafael Loss doesn’t think that the floods in Germany will be a decisive election issue
This compromise shows Joe Biden’s desire to leave this file behind to focus on other primtary matters in his relationship with Germany
Rafael Loss comments in Le Figaro Joe Biden’s decision to launch with Germany the Nord Stream 2 project.
Rafael Loss summarises the European policy recommendations of the Bürgerrat “Germany’s role in the world”