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Gedmin in the Washington Post: Europe Desperately Needs Leadership. It Should Come From Berlin.

New Atlanticist
May 6, 2025

Is Merz’s double-take chancellor vote a sign of things to come in Germany?

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Jörn Fleck and Jurek Wille

It took two rounds of voting in the Bundestag to elect Friedrich Merz chancellor, a sign of division unprecedented in modern German history.

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Gedmin in the Washington Post: Europe Desperately Needs Leadership. It Should Come From Berlin.

New Atlanticist
Feb 19, 2025

Germany’s economy has gone from engine to anchor. Here’s what the next chancellor faces.

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Piotr Arak

Revitalizing growth in Germany’s economy, which appears increasingly mired in stagnation, will demand urgent action from the next chancellor.

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Gedmin in the Washington Post: Europe Desperately Needs Leadership. It Should Come From Berlin.

New Atlanticist
Feb 4, 2025

The next German chancellor must lead from the front, not the middle, on European security

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Rachel Rizzo, James Batchik

From support for Ukraine to defense spending, German leaders would be wise to take the phrase Führung aus der Mitte permanently out of their vocabulary.

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In the News

May 10, 2017

Gedmin in the Washington Post: Europe Desperately Needs Leadership. It Should Come From Berlin.

By Jeffrey Gedmin

Read the full article here.

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NATOSource

May 5, 2017

Germany Wants to Destroy Foreign Servers Carrying Out Cyber Attacks

By Andrea Shalal, Reuters

The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency accused Russian rivals of gathering large amounts of political data in cyber attacks

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NATOSource

Apr 24, 2017

Trump Believes ‘Nobody Ever Criticized NATO’

By Donald Trump, AP

TRUMP: They had a quote from me that NATO’s obsolete. But they didn’t say why it was obsolete.

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Apr 3, 2017

German Foreign Minister Challenges US Demands on NATO Defense Spending

By Sigmar Gabriel, German Foreign Ministry

The Alliance is at a crossroads and faces multiple challenges in and around Europe. In view of these challenges, a strong transatlantic bond is key!

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Defense Industrialist

Mar 27, 2017

Will DARPA get its Cylons back?

By James Hasik

The Pentagon’s concerns over Chinese investment in the US should be considered carefully. In this morning’s Wall Street Journal, Daniel Michaels and his team write of how what’s “Driving U.S. Factories [is] Foreign Robotics.” All the best machine tools, it would seem, are made by the Germans and the Japanese. If that sounds like the 1980s, he asserts […]

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UkraineAlert

Mar 23, 2017

Wanted: Leader of the Free World

By Stephen Blank

Two months into Donald Trump’s presidency, it is clear that Trump cannot control himself or his own administration. Sadly, this observation applies across the board in foreign policy. Trump first warmly greeted Taiwan, threatened a trade war with China, and then abruptly announced that he recognized the one China principle and Secretary of State Rex […]

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Mar 20, 2017

Germany Rejects Trump’s Claim It Owes NATO and US ‘Vast Sums’ for Defense

By Reuters and Politico Europe

From Reuters: German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump‘s claim that Germany owes NATO and the United States “vast sums” of money for defense.

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NATOSource

Mar 20, 2017

Trump Tweets: ‘Germany Owes Vast Sums of Money’ to NATO

By Julie Hirshfeld Davis, New York Times

President Trump criticized Germany on Saturday for paying too little to both NATO and the United States for security support

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In the News

Mar 20, 2017

Cohen Joins BBC to Discuss Recent Meeting Between President Trump and Chancellor Merkel

By Ariel Cohen

Watch the full interview here.

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President Donald Trump, March 17, 2017

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Mar 17, 2017

Trump to Merkel: Our NATO Allies Need ‘to Pay’

By Donald Trump, Angela Merkel, and Reuters

Donald Trump: I reiterated to Chancellor Merkel my strong support for NATO, as well as the need for our NATO allies to pay their fair share for the cost of defense.

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