European integration and EU institutions
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Die Zukunft – eine neue Welt(un)ordnung
Mark Twain wird das Bonmot zugeschrieben „Prognosen sind schwierig, vor allem wenn sie die Zukunft betreffen“. Wie Mark Twain habe ich natürlich auch keine Kristallkugel, aus der ich die Zukunft lesen kann. Grundsätzlich halte ich es mit Perikles: „Es kommt nicht darauf an, die Zukunft vorauszusagen, sondern darauf, auf die Zukunft vorbereitet zu sein.“ Um
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The Future of NATO – Demise, Reform or Rebirth?
1 Introduction An ostrich policy will not help to navigate the storms. Instead, we need to face the hard reality: US President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement have caused a new existential crisis for NATO. What are the main reasons for this crisis? With all this, Pax Americana is vanishing. Donald Trump has handed
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Poland’s War Over Knives and Forks
In Poland’s presidential election last Sunday, the unprofessional national populist Karol Nawrocki won over the highly skilled former Member of the European Parliament and now Mayor of Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski. This result had nothing to do with the qualification of the candidates, and everything with crude, ‚us vs. them‘ identity politics of the rural, socially
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Jürgen Habermas and the „Zeitenwende“
Jürgen Habermas, like my mother, turns 96 this year. This is, in itself, a remarkable achievement, especially as both, in their own ways, have remained intellectually agile. Admittedly this is where the parallels end. The philosopher and political-social theorist Jürgen Habermas is an institution in Germany and beyond. His works spanning by now several decades
Roland Freudenstein
On ‚EU strategic autonomy‘ and all that: An irreverent appeal for Europe to grow up.
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Roland Freudenstein
Reflections on ‘Great Power Rivalry: How Can the EU & UK Survive?’ on Tim Beyer Helm’s World Wide Wednesday on 25 July 2023
Liverpool World Wide Wednesday