A grand coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD under Chancellor Friedrich Merz is formed after the 2025 federal elections. Key issues are a 500 billion euro investment fund and a tougher migration policy. The AfD achieves its best result with 20.8%, also in western Germany. Security expert Ulrich Schlie sees this as a profound change in sentiment and warns of growing dissatisfaction with previous policies, particularly on migration and security.
Prof. Ulrich Schlie on TRT Global: Turning point in Berlin - Will the new government bring stability? Prof. Ulrich Schlie on TRT Global: Turning point in Berlin - Will the new government bring stability?
Germany is facing a twofold challenge: Domestically, pressure is growing due to the AfD and social polarization, while Trump's return and global uncertainties are exacerbating the course of foreign policy.
Prof. Ulrich Schlie2 is a historian, political scientist and, since 2020, Director of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS) and the Henry Kissinger Professor for Security and Strategy Research at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Bonn.
Ulrich Schlie was Professor of Practice at Tufts University (Medford, MA/USA), Fellow at the Weatherhead Center of Harvard University (Cambridge, MA/USA), Visiting Fellow at the Nato Defense College Rome, Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge/UK and Professeur associé as holder of the Alfred Grosser Chair at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and holder of the Chair of Diplomacy II at Andrássy University Budapest. He currently holds a Joint Research Professorship at the School of International Relations at St Andrews University in Scotland.
Links
- https://trt.global/deutsch/article/c995451e0107
- https://www.cassis.uni-bonn.de/en/about-us/all-employees/schlie
- https://www.cassis.uni-bonn.de/en/media-contributions/prof-heinemann-grueder-bei-n-tv-menschen-werden-zum-russentum-zwangskonvertiert
- https://www.cassis.uni-bonn.de/en/media-contributions/die-tuerkei-am-scheideweg-prof-dr-ulrich-schlie-in-der-sendung-der-tag-des-hessischen-rundfunks