The Alternative for Germany (AfD) participated in the “BRICS–Europe” symposium held in Sochi from 13 to 17 November. The presence of the AfD’s European Parliament member Hans Neuhoff, MP Steffen Kotré, and chairperson of Saxony Jörg Urban, triggered a debate in Germany. How on earth could a political party of Germany attend “full-scaled aggressor” Putin’s meeting? AfD politicians delivered speeches ...
At the end of October, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) wrote in a report that France is preparing to deploy a contingent of up to 2000 soldiers and officers to Ukraine. UWI author, historian and political scientist Associate Professor Mehmet Perinçek commented what such a move would mean for France-Russia relations and the EU’s leading countries. From an indirect to ...
I first went to Germany in the summer of 1989. My last visit was in 2016. In 2016, I went to many cities and towns, giving numerous conferences in different regions. In total, I might have travelled close to 20 times to this country. Earlier this month, after a decade-long break, I was back in Germany again for two conferences ...
With the Red Storm Bravo exercise, the German armed forces, Bundeswehr, are conducting a war exercise for the first time not only in the port, but also on a large scale in several districts of the northern German metropolis of Hamburg. The maneuver scenario involves NATO “troops arriving at the Port of Hamburg with their equipment and weapons systems and ...
Germany’s state of North Rhine-Westphalia heads to the election on September 14. With only a few days remaining before the election, parties are stepping up their campaigns. One of these parties is the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – BSW), which narrowly missed the threshold of minimum vote rate for the parliament in the last federal election. The party ...
By Doğu Perinçek, Chairman of the Vatan Party (Türkiye) Today, however, Germany –no matter from which perspective one looks—is standing on the threshold of a path that could be called “moving closer to the East”. The necessity of economic cooperation with rising Asia, particularly China, the securing of energy supplies through relations with Russia and Iran, the need for peace, ...
Tomasz Froelich is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. He also serves on the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Delegation for Relations with Central Asia. Froelich’s party AfD is currently Germany’s main opposition party. Despite the elections being relatively recent, the latest polls show the AfD leading nationally. As ...
By Deniz Yıldırım Germany has begun to deploy troops to Lithuania, with the “need to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank”. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius visited the 45th Tank Brigade stationed in Lithuania. This move marks the first time since the Nazi era that Germany has stationed troops in a foreign country. Following the outbreak of the ...
By Cengiz Köse The majority of German society punished the previous war-mongering government in the elections on 23 February 2025. With the defeat of the SPD-Greens, the “left” of imperialism weakened in Germany. However, the German society, trying to escape the rain, got caught in a hailstorm. The new CDU/CSU (Christian Democratic/Social Union) – SPD (Social Democratic Party) coalition government ...
Following the recent federal elections, the new German government and its cabinet of ministers is expected to be announced soon. Meanwhile, the country’s expected new chancellor Friedrich Merz has already pushed forward with a further militarization of the economy. Now, one of the expected ministers, Wolfram Weimer, responsible for culture and media, sparks debate in the country due to his ...