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A genuinely needed, serious overview of the response of CEE/Baltics, Nordics, FR, UK and US to the Zeitenwende. But what about ES, PT, IT, AT, GR, NL (With Rutte on the cover)? No mention at all. Even if there is *no* response, surely that itself deserves a mention, @bctallis .
Scholz’s low-key visit was meant to reassure the United States, Germany’s most important ally, that Zeitenwende is not a flop and that he is working hard to get it off the ground, writes @LianaFix for @PostOpinions .
On GPS, @ 10am & 1pm ET today on @CNN : my exclusive interview w/ German@Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz, on whether Ukraine should compromise, his promised "Zeitenwende" and more ...
"Zeitenwende" - your word for the day. The sort of sensible nuance rarely offered by our MSM, where the only view tends most often is the American view
This is our Zeitenwende. Our turning point. It brings to mind that famous Gramsci quote: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
Three days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Scholz announced a Zeitenwende, or historical turning point, for German foreign and defence policy. Read Bastian Giegerich and Ben Schreer’s evaluation.
Late last year I met with a number of German parliamentarians and figures from the country’s defence and security establishment at @BAKS_Bund . The Zeitenwende was still fairly ill-defined. A year on from the speech and that remains the case.
Despite mixed results, the Zeitenwende is irreversible, a "sincere and compelling articulation of the challenges posed by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine for Germany; there is no going back from that,” said @ConStelz
LIVE | The future of Zeitenwende: One year since Germany’s historic turning point
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Germany’s @OlafScholz promised a Zeitenwende. A year on, he has more than delivered on energy security and aid to Ukraine. But despite these remarkable achievements, he’s backtracking on the promise to rearm. My piece via @WSJ
Germany's Zeitenwende looks more and more like Zeitenslalom. I understand that changing a decades long foreign and security policy culture takes time. But Ukraine does not have time to wait. We need to go all in.
So ... Japan is restarting its nuclear reactors; Spending $300bn on defense; Easing towards the end of yield curve control ... What is the Japanese for Zeitenwende?
German language society chooses Scholz's phrase about Ukraine as word of the year 2022 zeitenwende'>Meet Zeitenwende, our new reality. The runner-up phrase is about Ukraine, too: Krieg um Frieden
The Bundestag body set up in the spring to allocate Zeitenwende 100 bn for Gereman defense has met once. The German defence ministry had no procurement proposals to submit to it. Its next sitting will not be until February! Zeitenwende????
German Defense State Secretary Siemtje Möller writes:
“In a nutshell: Six months ago today Chancellor, @OlafScholz delivered his famous “zeitenwende” speech. I wrote in @TheScotsman this week about why 2022 feels less like a turning point & more like Gramsci’s interregnum, where “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.”
"Debt brake advocates promise it will protect future generations. In reality, it cripples them by preventing the necessary public investment in a prosperous future." @thorstenbenner calls for a fiscal Zeitenwende in Germany:
German "Zeitenwende" to materialize in encrypted radios, ships and air defence
Easy to shout from the sidelines, but sad to see that Germany did not do a Zeitenwende on Energiewende. Achievements of the anti-nuclear lobby since the 1970s: 1. Nuclear technology underdeveloped. 2. Fossile fuels overused. 3. Climate change accelerated. 4. Russian energy.
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