The German Council for Foreign Policy opened a new Center for Security and Defence. Strack-Zimmermann Calls for Strict Control of High Arms Spending

The first European summit on digital sovereignty—a German-French initiative—is kicking off in Berlin. According to Bitcom, technological dependence on other countries has grown even stronger.

The Trump era is all about interest-driven foreign policy. The EU and the German government still have to learn this lesson.

Almost all of my neighbors in Berlin-Mitte work in IT. The street could be called “Information Technology Street.” Whenever I hear my neighbors talking, for example in English with a strong Indian accent, or in Chinese or Russian, I wonder about the German IT mystery.