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Today, Germany stands at the center of Europe and is the most influential member of the European Union. Germany is a key partner of the U.S. in its most important international trade and economic relationships. As two of the world’s leading trading nations, the United States and Germany share a deep and abiding interest in the health of the world economy. There is no other country with which the U.S. shares a stronger mix of interests and values.
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The G7 Summit, Plus or Minus

While the G7 economies today account for only 30 percent of global GDP, they remain a decent proxy for what can still be called the “West” in geopolitical terms. Or …

More Growth Through Less Red Tape

The United States of America is in a much better economic position than the countries of the European Union. This is not only reflected in the corporate structure, with the …

Role Reversal

The Trump Geoeconomic Approach Imitates Merkel The first three months of the Trump administration have seen what could be called the Germanization of U.S. foreign policy. Trump has taken on …

AGI Profiles: Lars Klingbeil

Leader of the Social Democratic Party, Minister of Finance, and Vice Chancellor of Germany In the aftermath of the 2025 German federal elections, both the Bundestag and German media were …

Operation Plan Germany

Defense Is More Than Tanks and Drones Roughly a year ago, the German government took a significant step in the realm of homeland defense by adopting the classified “Operationsplan Deutschland” …

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Friedrich Merz in Washington: AGI Expert Analysis in the Media

On June 5, 2025, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met President Donald Trump for the first time in the Oval Office. AGI President Jeff Rathke discussed the chancellor’s visit with multiple …

Episode 127: A New Normal in Transatlantic Trade?

President Trump claims the international trading system is unfair to the United States. The Trump administration is seeking to rectify trade imbalances through tariffs and is trying to reshape the …

The Schuman Plan at 75 and the EU’s Global Role

On May 9, the European Union marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Schuman Plan, the project to create a European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) among six countries that was …

The American Revolution and Transatlantic Relations

History reminds that there is risk in forcing your vassals to become militarily self-sufficient. A people enjoying the protection of an offshore great power bristles at being asked to pay …

Germany’s European Chancellor

Many Germans are expressing buyers’ remorse. Coalition talks with the Social Democrats have successfully concluded, yet so far the head of the German Christian Democrats, Friedrich Merz, has failed to …

Trade Policy: Is It Foreign or Domestic?

On April 2, President Trump announced a major action “Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff” as a response to “large and persistent” U.S. trade deficits that the administration believes are …

Episode 124: Tariffs, Taxes, and Their International Ramifications

The Trump administration has taken sweeping actions on tariffs, with more scheduled to be imposed in April. On this episode of The Zeitgeist, Kim Clausing explains the administration’s approach to …

Europe Realizes That It Is Overregulating AI

The recent AI summit in Paris (February 10 to 11) was deemed a success by many participants, although U.S. Vice President JD Vance strongly criticized the EU’s “excessive regulation” in …