"We should have ordered fuel rods months ago": Dr Frank Umbach in an interview at Welt on the debate about nuclear power on 18.10.2022. "Every power plant more makes sense," says energy security expert Frank Umbach. However, nuclear power plants have the added advantage of being the best protected against possible physical attacks or cyber attacks.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinemann-Grüder on the course of the Ukraine war and the consequences of Russia's annexation of Ukrainian territories.
For days now, Ukraine has been experiencing a veritable constant bombardment by the Russian army. Dr. Joachim Weber, a security expert at the University of Bonn, estimates that some 5,000 missiles have been fired at Ukraine since the war began. This, he says, points to Russia's "astonishing" reserves.
After the impact of a missile in Poland, the world held its breath. Such situations could "escalate militarily very quickly," says the holder of the Henry Kissinger Professorship at CASSIS, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schlie. But NATO, the U.S. and Poland reacted appropriately to the situation, he said.
Dr. Joachim Weber in a guest article for Focus Online: ''German security policy is standing there with its trousers down. Putin's invasion of Ukraine showed that all too clearly. Our country is in no way seriously prepared for an emergency. What is now urgently needed militarily.''
The global challenges - climate change, global health, food and debt crises, as well as global power shifts and the crisis of multilateralism - are too multifaceted, too universal and too dynamic to be addressed by a largely defensive logic.
The USA is investing heavily in clean energies. It is high time for Germany and Europe to find an answer, says Friedbert Pflüger of Zukunft Gas in his position paper. Among other things, he suggests that the brakes on the European expansion of the hydrogen infrastructure should finally be lifted.
In this paper, Dr Iulian Romanyshyn and Dr Julian Bergmann provide an overview of how the EU has supported Ukraine so far, analyse priorities and challenges in the country's reconstruction and make recommendations for key stakeholders focusing on governance frameworks, financing mechanisms and security - development context.