German-Polish European BLOG

The situation in the Western Balkans countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia is becoming more and more challenging for the European Union.

Germany has made itself a reputation for being both an active supporter and a severe critic of the Western Balkans’ EU integration.

The Western Balkans have been perceived since recently as a potential new field of cooperation between Germany and Poland.

Looking at the pictures from the 27 October summit in Istanbul, where President Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan hosted President Emmanuel Macron, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Vladimir Putin

Migration processes in globalized reality has grown to the scale of unprecedented challenge for contemporary Europe.

EU institutions are right in aggressively addressing the issue of illiberal reforms in some of the Member States.

Brexit confronts the EU with the challenge of losing its third largest Member State, one of its most vibrant economies, a substantial net contributor to the EU budget and also to the EU's defense

After Brexit, the V4 countries, often regarded as located on the sideline of European integration (excluding to a certain degree Slovakia, a eurozone member), may play a greater role in the EU.

Disputes over migration policy in recent years have skewed the picture of cooperation between the Visegrad Group countries and Germany.

We have seen it several times before: a draft Multiannual Financial Framework which tries to find the middle ground between the widely diverging preferences of the main players.

Over the past decades, EU budget negotiations have been an issue of relatively little public attention in Germany. One might go so far and say that beyond the circles of the government,

"The Triangle of Weimar", designed as a communication and political platform, was meant to help shaping a new European order in a post-1989 era. It has its ups and downs.