Has Berlin overdone the challenge of migration? (Almut Möller, ECFR)

It goes without saying that the arrival of more than one million refugees and migrants since 2015 has left its mark on German politics and society. All levels of the German federal system – local communities, the federal states (Bundesländer), and the federal government – have had to adapt in order to process asylum applications and assess eligibility for asylum. More than this, Germany has had to adapt to deal with the needs of the newcomers who have been granted asylum, and to handle the cases of those who haven’t

http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_has_berlin_overdone_the_challenge_of_migration_7030

Germany's defence doublespeak (Almut Möller, ECFR)

Back in June 2014, security analysts Claudia Major and Christian Mölling argued that while Germany had started to embrace a new and almost revolutionary vision for its foreign and security policy, there was still quite a long way to go turn it into reality. Starting from the speeches by President Joachim Gauck and Foreign and Defence Ministers Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Ursula von der Leyen at the Munich Security Conference earlier that year, they argued that there were indeed signs of Germany wanting to live up to its powerful role in Europe and the world. Having said that, for such a shift to become reality Berlin would have to engage the Germans in discussing military means as an acceptable and complementary part of the political toolbox. “Change can only start from home, and has to be introduced carefully”, they concluded.

http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_germanys_defence_doublespeak7008

The end of Europakonsens? (Almut Möller, ECFR)

http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_the_end_of_europakonsens