Join our #MorningBriefing tomorrow! Together with Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, @thousandfriend.bsky.social & Amanda Sloat, moderator @stoeckmannjan.bsky.social will assess the views formalized in the recently released 🇺🇸 NSS & their implications for the transatlantic relationship.

it‘s that time of year again #BerlinForum

Re-watch now our discussion with Justin Logan from Cato Institute! As part of our “Remaking America?” event series with @scripts-berlin.eu, we discussed what a 🇺🇸 strategy of restraint could mean for 🇪🇺 & how transatlantic relations would evolve under this vision. @thousandfriend.bsky.social

Join our upcoming #MorningBriefing this Thursday! Together with our experts @thousandfriend.bsky.social & András Rácz, host @stoeckmannjan.bsky.social will assess the current situation on the frontlines in #Ukraine and the state of the negotiations. Register now!

On Thursday 19 June, we'll be discussing the #Trump presidency and the future of 🇺🇸 foreign policy with Ambassador John Bolton as part of our ‘Remaking America?’ series with @scripts-berlin.eu, hosted by @thousandfriend.bsky.social. Join us at our premises or online via Zoom! buff.ly/chwMRfg

Join our #MorningBriefing next Friday! Together with @thousandfriend.bsky.social & Gideon Rose @cfr.org, host @stoeckmannjan.bsky.social will assess the meeting between Donald Trump & Friedrich Merz on June 5 and its implications for transatlantic relations & 🇪🇺 security policy. Register now! 👇

100 Tage Trump – stehen wir am Beginn einer neuen Weltordnung? Um 19 Uhr beginnt unsere Diskussion mit Rieke Havertz @havpost.bsky.social, Christoph von Marschall @tagesspiegel.de und Rachel Tausendfreund @thousandfriend.bsky.social. Infos und Link zum Livestream: www.evangelische-akademie.de/62873

To start off our new event series “Remaking America?” with @scripts-berlin.eu, we will welcome Mark DiPlacido on 15 May to discuss Donald Trump's tariffs & 🇺🇸 #trade policy. His remarks will be further discussed with @mhallerberg.bsky.social & the event moderated by @thousandfriend.bsky.social.

Bei der Paneldiskussion diskutierten die Autorinnen und Autoren der Studie "Die ersten 90 Tage Trump 2.0" @thousandfriend.bsky.social, Claudia Schmucker, Michael Laha, @aylinmatle.bsky.social und Victoria Rietig. Lesen Sie die Studie hier: dgap.org/de/forschung... ENGLISH: dgap.org/en/research/...

... Michael Laha, Claudia Schmucker & @aylinmatle.bsky.social die politischen Neuausrichtung in Washington aus verschiedenen fachlichen Blickwinkeln. Moderiert wird das Panel von unserer 🇺🇸-Expertin @thousandfriend.bsky.social. Jetzt anmelden & dabei sein! /2

Welches Ziel verfolgt Donald #Trump & wie können sich die 🇪🇺 Staaten unabhängiger von den 🇺🇸 machen, gerade in Sachen #Verteidigung? Diese Fragen & mehr diskutiert #USA-Expertin @thousandfriend.bsky.social im @zeit.de-Videopodcast „Was jetzt? — Die Woche“. Zur Sendung 📺👇

How can 🇪🇺 move its plans for security guarantees in 🇺🇦 forward & how can it react to eroding transatlantic #security? For answers, join our next #MorningBriefing with @dgap.org experts @aylinmatle.bsky.social, @thousandfriend.bsky.social & Rolf Nikel, hosted by @stoeckmannjan.bsky.social!

"Europe needs Germany—and a strong German government," says @thousandfriend.bsky.social on CNN. Early exit polls suggest many parties in the Bundestag, meaning Friedrich Merz may need two coalition partners —making talks more complicated. #GermanyVotes

"Eine Europäisierung der NATO ist unabdingbar - Was Berlin hierfür tun muss" haben @thousandfriend.bsky.social und ich in einem @dgap.org-Memo im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl aufgeschrieben: dgap.org/de/forschung.... #BTW2025

„Die einzige nachhaltige Antwort auf die schwindende 🇺🇸-Präsenz in 🇪🇺 ist eine stärkere Europäisierung der NATO“, schreiben @aylinmatle.bsky.social & @thousandfriend.bsky.social in ihrem Memo. 🇩🇪 muss hier eine Vorreiterrolle übernehmen, indem es folgende 3⃣ Maßnahmen umsetzt, so unsere Expertinnen: /1

Looks like the “I wanna buy Greenland” debate is back

🟢 Did you miss our webinar "𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝟮.𝟬: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 & 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 – 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝘂𝗽?" with @thousandfriend.bsky.social & @rkefferputz.bsky.social? Rewatch it here ▶️ www.youtube.com/live/5QWWv6R... @boell.de @dgap.org

"The risk of second China shock isn’t just an issue because of Donald J. Trump. The risks to other global centers of automotive engineering, design, and production thus should be clear. Germany in particular needs to take note". The always essential Brad Setser. www.cfr.org/blog/will-ch...

“Behind closed doors, people think she might be compromised. Like it’s not hyperbole,” one Republican Senate aide told The Hill. “There are members of our conference who think she’s a [Russian] asset.” *** Gabbard soll Director of National Intelligence werden unter Trump 🫠

🟢 Trump 2.0: The future of Ukraine and European security – Can the EU step up? Join our webinar on 12/12 at 10:30 CET presenting the 🆕 study by @thousandfriend.bsky.social & @rkefferputz.bsky.social ➡️ calendar.boell.de/en/trump-sce... @boell.de @dgap.org @ecfrpower.bsky.social

Big things are happening in Africa for France. “Chad, the last Sahelian country to host French forces, gave assurances on Thursday November 28 that it would terminate its security and defense agreements with Paris” www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

🏛️ Chapter 1, Multilateral Reform and Minilateral Cooperation by Garima Mohan & @thousandfriend.bsky.social "But pivotal powers resist demands for binary alliances. They are also united in trying to assert their own influence to shape the global order." www.gmfus.org/news/pivotal...

Erst Klimapolitik, jetzt Abtreibung, nach und nach werden Themen in DE neu politisiert nach amerikanischen Vorbild (und dort läuft es prima, wie wir wissen)

This is big - Trump WON Dearborn (18% for Jill Stein) www.freep.com/story/news/p...

New European Commission - including defence (and space) commissioner Andrius Kubilius. www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

A lesson Trump learned in 2020 is that the rhetoric he used that was criticized as racist didn't keep him from improving with non-White voters. So he keeps turning that dial further to the right. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Guys, I feel like Trump‘s insane talent for nasty (and highly effective) monikers is failing this time. “Laughing Kamala”? What is so bad about about a full-throated laugh? No, really. I think they are miscalculating the standard degree of misogyny this time. Am I wrong?

Something more like this needs to be coming from the German center-left (@Greens) as well. I know it’s more complicated in Germany, but nonetheless necessary barackobama.medium.com/my-statement...