Minister Klingbeil discussing with Scott Bessent to strengthen joint US-German positions on issues like trade, finance and broader geopolitics. After all a worthy trip to Washington this week.

🔀 Germany's fiscal rules dilemma

💡 @steinbacharmin.bsky.social and @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social dig into the details of what the debt brake relaxation means for government spending, and why this sits awkwardly with the EU's new fiscal rules.

💭 Time to reform the reform?

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🛡️ The proposed European Defence Mechanism: questions and answers

@steinbacharmin.bsky.social @guntramwolff.bsky.social and @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social respond to questions they have received from experts regarding the details of their proposal.

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🪖 The governance and funding of European rearmament

@steinbacharmin.bsky.social @guntramwolff.bsky.social and @jzettelmeyer.bsky.social assess how additional efforts can be made to improve the governance and financing of European rearmament.

🔗 Policy Brief here! buff.ly/sJj0mep
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Da in punkto Schuldenbremse schon (fast) alles gesagt wurde, nur noch nicht von jedem, hab ich heute im DLF auch meinen Senf dazu abgegeben.

Grundsätzliches, aber auch zum aktuellen Turbo-Verfahren einer Verfassungsänderung

www.deutschlandfunk.de/schuldenbrem...

Germany 35 years after reunification (election winners by district, blue is AfD)

🖨️Fresh from the press 🖨️
EU Law and Economics @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

Grateful for the endorsements by
Pascal Lamy
@pisaniferry.bsky.social
Rosa Lastra
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read open access academic.oup.com/book/59308

Former German Chancellor Angela #Merkel blamed her conservative #CDU party for passing a migration motion with the help of the far-right AfD

👉 HEC Paris's @steinbacharmin.bsky.social on electoral tensions in Germany ahead of the 23rd February vote⤵️