The “European army”, a tale of wilful misunderstanding
The European army concept is ambiguous – what do European leaders actually want to achieve?
Ulrike Franke
Flash Wars: Where could an autonomous weapons revolution lead us?
Making it harder to attribute an attack to a perpetrator will have repercussions beyond non-state use
Germany’s defence policy: still living in dreamland
Beyond its borders, few agree that Germany has much to feel satisfied about when it comes to matching its actions to its leaders’ rhetoric
Laws on LAWS? Germany’s place in the ‘killer robot’ debate
Germany – and all Europeans – need to get on with agreeing not only the technical rules around lethal autonomous weapons, but also whether we really want to delegate decisions over life and death to machines
Pedantry in motion: European intervention hits the language barrier
German politicians struggle to endorse Emmanuel Macron’s proposal for a “European Intervention Initiative” not least because the term intervention sounds misleading in German
Conservatives without a cause? The German youth’s view and what it means for Europe
Retaining what they have is largely enough for millennials – despite the fact that the majority feels that the EU is not on the right path.
Europe needs more than management from Germany
Germany’s aversion to political vision used to be a blessing. Now it’s becoming a curse
Five takeaways from the Munich Security Conference
The world is in need of leadership on the global stage – but in Munich, no leaders were in sight
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
German public says ‘jein’ to European security
A new poll shows that the German public is increasingly concerned with security, but is dismissive of its American security guarantor and unwilling to pay more to help Europe replace it