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2 months ago | 
cleanenergywire.org | Rafael Loss |Julian Wettengel
Elections & Politics EU Security Over the past three years, Germany has missed many opportunities to build stronger European relations with countries like France, says analyst Rafael Loss. Photo: European Union.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
ecfr.eu | Rafael Loss
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Arancha González Laya |Richard Gowan |Rafael Loss |Jana Puglierin
Podcast ECFR on air Europe Listens23 April 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyRSSIn September 2024, the United Nation’s Summit of the Future is set to take place – a crucial moment to mend “eroded trust” between peoples, countries, and generations. Europe’s role on the world stage is constantly adapting to the fluidity of the global geopolitical space.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Pradeep Singh |Rafael Loss |Jana Puglierin |ECFR Berlin
Podcast ECFR on air3 April 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyRSSTo achieve the ambitions of the European Green Deal, the European Commission insists that healthy oceans and a sustainable maritime economy are crucial. With rising demand for minerals from various sectors, including to advance the green transformation, many expect we are on the brink of the biggest gold rush in history – deep beneath the ocean surface.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Rafael Loss |Jana Puglierin |ECFR Berlin
Podcast ECFR on air3 April 2024Apple PodcastsSpotifyRSSAround 70 per cent of our planet is covered by the ocean, of which two-thirds fall beyond national jurisdiction. After decades of discussions and negotiations, states adopted the so-called High Seas Treaty in September 2023. The treaty aims to increase the governance of the world’s oceans and tackle common challenges such as environmental degradation, illegal fishing, and preserving our marine resources sustainably.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
ecfr.eu | Rafael Loss
Upon taking office in 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping set out to lay “the foundation for a future where we will […] have the dominant position.” The country’s accelerating nuclear weapons buildup suggests that this ambition extends to the nuclear domain, and in this, Xi seems to have the support of his people.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
defensenews.com | Rafael Loss
In December 1983, amid the heightened tensions of the “second Cold War,” U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and his West German counterpart, Manfred Wörner, agreed on a $3 billion program (worth more than $9 billion today) to boost NATO’s air defenses along the central front: the inner-German border with the Soviet-controlled eastern bloc.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
ecfr.eu | Rafael Loss |Jana Puglierin
Podcast ECFR on air31 August 2023Listen on SoundCloudThe global space economy is worth a whopping $469 billion, and growing fast. Commercial interests are proliferating; more and more countries are launching satellites into space. Some African leaders aspire for their continent to become a knowledge, technology, and manufacturing hub for this new space age and to leverage space technologies to advance economic development. They are looking for global partners to join them in this quest.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
ecfr.eu | Rafael Loss |Jana Puglierin
Podcast ECFR on air31 August 2023Listen on SoundCloudOn 8 January 2023, following a contentious national election, protestors attacked government buildings in Brazil’s capital. The riots were preceded by years of online disinformation, targeting lawmakers and the country’s electoral process. Striking parallels with the storming of the US Capitol two years prior underline the role that transnational networks play in pushing disinformation globally, and that of big tech standing idly by (at best).
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Jun 6, 2023 | 
ecfr.eu | Rafael Loss
Russia’s war against Ukraine is intimately tied to the global nuclear order. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has issued countless nuclear threats since February 2022: among other things, warning those who might consider coming to Ukraine’s defence of consequences “never seen in your entire history”; placing Russia’s nuclear forces on “enhanced combat duty”; and preparing to deploy Russian nuclear warheads in neighbouring Belarus.
