Germany enters 2026 facing a world in upheaval. Whether navigating relations with the United States, Ukraine, China or Middle ...

SUDHA DAVID-WILP is Vice President of External Relations and a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. LIANA FIX is Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations ...

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul speaks on foreign policy topics at the "Long Night of "Time" 2025" event on the campus of Hamburg University Markus Scholz/dpa German Foreign Minister Johann ...

Friedrich Merz, German opposition leader and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, speaks during a session of the German parliament 'Bundestag' in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Jan. 31, ...

Meanwhile, politicians who argued that forging energy ties with Russia helped not only German industry but also the cause of peace have been sidelined, as the country has pivoted to other sources of ...

IN 1934 the Assembly of the League voted to form a committee "to arrange for an enquiry concerning the causes, scope, methods, and results of compensation and clearing agreements." This committee was ...

When German Green foreign minister Annalena Baerbock presented her “Guidelines for a Feminist Foreign Policy” in March 2023, we wrote that this project, as absurd as it is reactionary, was “ultimately ...

Friedrich Merz wants to be a foreign-policy chancellor. One might not have known it from Germany’s parochial federal election campaign, or the business-as-usual foreign-policy passages of the ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Liana Fix is a fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations. Jack Silverman is an intern for Europe Studies at the ...

Nearly two years of carpet bombing, mass murder and a starvation blockade of the Gaza Strip have turned Israel into a pariah state, despised and hated throughout the world. Nevertheless, the German ...

A German-French initiative for coordinating European plans for a ceasefire in Ukraine should be launched, the head of the ...