One year of traffic light coalition and • Table.Briefings

The German government wanted to define its positions earlier for European coordination processes and make its own European policy coordination more stringent. But even after a year, the traffic light coalition often fails to live up to this goal – with consequences for Germany’s position in the EU.

Guntram Wolff, the director of the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin and previously in Brussels at the think tank Bruegel, chooses positive words: „The traffic light government is clearly pro-European and supports the central concerns of the EU and EU values,“ he says in response to a Europe.Table inquiry.

One year of traffic light coalition and Europe: reliably chaotic

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