Dräger Klaus

By Klaus Dräger  On taking office as President of the EU Commission in 2019, Ursula von der Leyen said she wanted to create a 'geopolitical...

The EU, the Ukraine war, and its collaterals By Klaus Dräger The invasion of Ukraine by Putin's army heralds a global 'turning point', so western pundits...

Greenwald (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/as-anger-toward-belarus-mounts-recall-the-2013-forced-landing-of-bolivias-plane-to-find-snowden)/reminds of the 2013 forced take down of the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales in Austria. The U.S. and the EU did...

By Klaus Dräger  George Kerevan pays tribute to the great Marxist thinker Ernest Mandel, who died some 25 years ago in 1995 – and rightly...

by Klaus Dräger The deal on the rule of law is very much kept in limbo during the last EU Council. Poland and Hungary achieved...

By Herman Michiel and Klaus Dräger (*) November 2020 When the European Commission finally realized that something serious was going on with corona, it launched, among...

Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel is desparately trying to convince the governments of EU member states to agree on the EU Recovery Plan. So far,...

As a follow up to the joint proposal of Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on creating an EU Recovery Fund...

by Klaus Dräger Since 7 January 2020, there is a new government in place in Spain. PSOE's Pedro Sanchez is again Prime Minister. He is...

By Klaus Dräger * In February 2018 Oskar Lafontaine wrote: "Do we need a movement of the political left accumulating broader forces (Sammlungsbewegung)? Yes, if...