Newsroom – Page 2 – Dr Oliver Hartwich

Why Europe’s next war could be between Greece and Turkey

At the moment, a war between Greece and Turkey seems unlikely because it would be an all-around catastrophe. Then again, that is precisely why many believed Putin would never invade Ukraine. [...]

Europe’s path to Mexico’s debt crisis

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The moderate increases in the European Central Bank’s interest rates are far from being brutal but the writing is on the wall that Europe’s monetary party is about to end, and Southern Europe has remarkable parallels to Mexico and Latin America in the 1980s. [...]

An adverse reaction the Kremlin did not see coming

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The strategic implications of Putin’s war against Ukraine keep evolving as the conflict enters its fourth month. As yet another unintended consequence, it has broken the anti-EU axis between Warsaw and Budapest. [...]

Putin’s war has changed the pacifist reflexes of Europe’s left

Of all the developments triggered by Putin’s war, the left's departure from pacifism may be the most surprising one. It will be interesting to see whether only the left in Europe will focus on security in this way. [...]

Big rouble in little Europe

Europe will face difficult monetary conditions for years to come. If the bank is unlucky, inflation expectations will solidify, and rapid price increases will become a permanent feature for the Eurozone. [...]

Putin’s French candidate, Marine Le Pen

As Putin’s soldiers fight in eastern Ukraine, he is also involved in a battle much further west. Tragically, that western battle may even go his way. [...]

Old German habits of bureaucratic and political incompetence die slowly

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The more things change, the more they stay the same. This is how Germany’s foreign and defence policy appears these days. [...]

The West is back

Putin’s war on Ukraine, and Zelensky’s heroism, force us all to take a stand. It leaves no room for neutrality, even if dressed up as an independent foreign policy. [...]

No method in Putin’s madness

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Putin’s attack on Ukraine was a complete miscalculation. But that now makes it our problem. [...]

Self-absorbed West needs reality check on actual existential threats

It may be a good time for a reality check, especially in Western industrialised countries. Perhaps they worry and feel helpless about things that, though bad, may not pose the most existential threats. [...]