Gerhard Schröder

  • European Union

Germans are the EU’s political Achilles’ heel: this has been clear ever since Schröder and Merkel used to fly to Moscow

Russia is so far confidently ahead of Ukraine. Fortunately, not on the battlefield. But, as the EU's foreign policy chief,…

3 years ago
  • European Union

From Franco-German motor to German-French condominium over the EU. A brief chronicle of the European Union’s Pétainisation

After the glory days of the Franco-German couple under Giscard and Schmidt and, in a more ambiguous mode, under Kohl-Mitterrand…

3 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

The “Russian Factor” in Germany’s policy towards the Eastern Partnership

In contrast to many of its European neighbours, Germany maintained relatively close relations with Russia for a long time. Some…

7 years ago
  • European Union

Grybauskaitė sees Nord Stream project as EU energy policy ‘shroderization’

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that further development of the Russia-Germany gas pipeline Nord Stream means shroderization of the European…

8 years ago