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Berlin warms to French 'Buy European' plans as global trade rules erode

Berlin warms to French ‘Buy European’ plans as global trade rules erode

Press play to listen to this article Expressed by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — Threatened by a new package of U.S. subsidies that could hammer European industry, Germany is backtracking on its longstanding objections to programs such as France’s “Buy European Act” that would lay down provisions on buying goods locally. Berlin’s growing sympathy for the …

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From Poland to Germany: actions, not words, will promote reconciliation

From Poland to Germany: actions, not words, will promote reconciliation

Sławomir Dębski is director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs and a Polish historian. For the past five decades, Germany’s elected officials have knelt before monuments erected to commemorate the unspoken brutality of World War II, delivering speeches that underscore “their historic responsibility” and the need for reconciliation. One would expect these innumerable mea …

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The difficult quest for a common energy policy

The difficult quest for a common energy policy

Lucas Schramm is a political science researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The European Council recently confirmed that little, if anything, in the European Union moves between France and Germany without consent. The Franco-German controversies have been at the heart of the energy issue for weeks. But it is not uncommon for these two …

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