Opinion

Greetings, comrades!

Good socialists call each other "comrade." Don't they? In China, the term was long claimed by homosexuals. Now Xi Jinping has revived it – in the hope of reversing the decline in party discipline.

By Redaktion Table

Can the digital political awakening succeed?

Previous federal governments have tried out several variants to better coordinate digital policy. With the traffic light government, a different approach with distributed competences is now being chosen again, without a clear leader. Many changes are good, but whether the promised departure will succeed? Stefan Heumann explains the new distribution of competences in the federal government.

By Redaktion Table

Energy crises in the age of climate change

For an equitable structural shift away from fossil fuels, the enormous gaps in climate protection measures must be closed – between what is necessary for a 1.5 degree path and what is currently being done and planned. Jörg Haas and Lili Fuhr of the Heinrich Böll Foundation provide an analysis.

By Redaktion Table

The supply chain is becoming more Chinese

China's influence on reshaping global supply chains is growing with the pandemic. Concerned about losing access to key components from foreign countries, the People's Republic is increasingly relying on domestic innovation, manufacturing and demand. For multinationals whose investments or exports to China are considered critical by the Chinese government, it will become harder to do business in China as usual.

By Redaktion Table

EU climate policy: Franco-German conflicts and lines of compromise

Germany and France disagree on EU climate policy: from taxonomy to emissions trading to CO2 border adjustment. Götz Reichert of the Centre for European Policy (CEP) nevertheless sees potential for Franco-German compromises.

By Redaktion Table

China's global hybrid war

By Redaktion Table

EU’s rule of law battle is now political

The other member states have hidden behind the EU Commission and the ECJ for too long, criticises Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). This has only served to swell the crisis of the rule of law in Hungary and Poland. Now it's up to the governments to resolve the conflict.

By Redaktion Table

China's listless tigers

China wants to avoid a bad atmosphere among the population, and Xi Jinping himself advocates diligence instead of idleness. Nevertheless, the subversive term "tangping" has made it onto the list of Internet words of the year. It means "lying flat" and stands for a new social protest in the form of cultivated laziness. The young generation has had enough of constant strain and forced conformity to a competitive society. Johnny Erling shows how cartoonists pick up on the trend word in their drawings.

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Elections in France: chances of an outsider

Victor Warhem of the Centre de Politique Européenne in Paris analyses Republican candidate Valérie Pécresse's prospects of winning the upcoming presidential elections.

By Timo Landenberger

How Germany wants to make its foreign policy more progressive

Clearer foreign policy vis-à-vis autocracies, visions for Europe: The traffic light coalition has set itself a number of goals. But the resistance to the laudable new course is considerable, analyses Jana Puglierin of the European Council on Foreign Relations. The new government must therefore seize opportunities.

By Redaktion Table