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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (right) and Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz attend a discussion at an event hosted by the Canadian-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Toronto on Tuesday, August 23, 2022
MINERAL and hydrogen export deals were signed by Canadian and German leaders in Montreal today, as Berlin seeks replacements for Russian raw materials.
A delegation led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz had been in Canada since Sunday, with ambitious aims of detaching Europe’s largest economy from its deep economic ties to Eurasia and forging a transatlantic bloc instead.
German industry is heavily dependent on Russian gas imports, which have shrunk significantly since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February.
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN