Germany’s turn against Putin is a source of satisfaction in the Baltic states One thing we know for sure about German Chancellor Angela Merkel: She takes time to ponder her decisions and she weighs ...

President Biden faces the challenge of crafting his own national security strategy to deal with adversaries such as Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korea’s Kim Jong ...

Egon Bahr, an eminent German Social Democrat who with late Chancellor Willy Brandt forged a policy of rapprochement with Communist Eastern Europe known as "Ostpolitik" during the Cold War, has died at ...

The Vatican’s latest openings to China resemble the path traced by the old Ostpolitik of Card. Agostino Casaroli. Then as now, the Holy See’s moves have provoked and provoke disagreements, criticism ...

The relationship between Germany and Russia (and the Soviet Union before that) has been of crucial importance to European security following the end of World War II. In recent decades Berlin’s ...

Egon Bahr, an eminent German Social Democrat who with late Chancellor Willy Brandt forged a policy of rapprochement with Communist Eastern Europe known as "Ostpolitik" during the Cold War, has died at ...

Pavlo Smytsynuk has been the Mary Seeger O’Boyle Associate Research Scholar at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of Religion at Princeton University since the Russian invasion ...

For fifty years there has been consensus among the mainstream political parties in Germany about relations with Russia. For historical, economic and political reasons, German Ostpolitk must engage ...

The collapse of Soviet communism gave reason to the Vatican political choices in opening up to Russia and Eastern Europe. The new Ostpolitik announces a new world without geographic or confessional ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The writer is an FT contributing editor, chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and fellow at IWM Vienna ...