Many countries have set up agencies to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Have they been successful in their goal? Or are these investment promotion agencies a trap for voters, instead of an effective mechanism? Notably, agencies attracting FDI have become...
Despite its economic strength Germany remains a sideshow on the international stage. Germany’s active attempts to conduct diplomacy have been underwhelming and meaningful results are rarely delivered. The main parameters are set by the US. China and Russia set the...
France, with the support of other nations, continues to conduct anti-terrorist operations Barkhane in Mali and other countries in Africa’s Sahel zone. It aims to fight terrorism and to stabilize the country. The EU has been conducting its own mission...
The Trump administration had repeatedly telegraphed its opposition to expansion of the Nord Stream pipeline network which was opened in 2011 as a Russo-German initiative, with involvement of French and Dutch firms. The Nord Stream 2 extension of the pipeline...
After the American military surge eradicated the Taliban leadership in 2002, German police officers have been training Afghan colleagues in Kabul. The quality of the mission conducted, however, has been atrocious, according to a report. More than 80,000 Afghan police...
The leaders of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SDP), Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans, were awarded a mandate by their party faithful at a recent party conference to discuss with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democratic Party (CDU) about...
For almost six years, Eastern Ukraine has known war. Locked in a seemingly unending cycle of conflict with separatist militias, Kiev’s battalions are battered and bruised – but still they fight on. A ceasefire was signed in 2015, but the ...
The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine met on Monday 9 December in Paris in a renewed effort to end the armed conflict that has been raging in Ukraine for the past five years. This was the first meeting...
Finding a news story in the international media about the Alternative for Germany (AfD) where the terms “far-right” or “extreme right-wing” are not applied to the party is a difficult task. Media outlets such as the BBC, CNN, ABC and...
Seventeen candidates wanted to become the new leadership of Germany’s Social Democrats. In twenty-three regional conferences across all 16 German states, they introduced themselves to party members and the public in an attempt to stand out as the perfect fit...
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