Interviewed by Deutsche Welle BGA Advisor Ben Hodges sharply criticized the US troop withdrawal from Germany. “The withdrawal is a huge gift to the Kremlin” he said but Russia has done nothing to deserve this. Gen. Hodges considered the withdrawal less a strategic and more a political decision which will take months before relevant structures […]

Four years after the referendum, half a year before the end of the transitional period, it is still unclear where Brexit is actually going to lead. The promise of British decisionmakers that Brexit will be a walk in the park has proved to be fundamentally wrong, writes BGA-Advisor Rudolf Adam in his latest Op-ed for […]

The transatlantic relations are currently at a low point. BGA-Partner, Jürgen Chrobog, provides a great overview over the fault lines of US-German relations.

The German government wants to support the German economy with up to 130 billion euros following the impact of the Corona crisis.  In an interview with “Unternehmer-Magazin Ditigal” BGA-CEO and co-founder of the non-profit initiative “macher-hilfe.de”, Jan Kallmorgen, considers the economic stimulus package to be a “strong impetus overall, especially for future technologies in Germany”. […]

In an interview with Der Tagesspiegel BGA-Advisor Ben Hodges criticized the plan of the US administration to withdraw military troops from Germany. He castigated the decision of Donald Trump’s core team at the White House as a “purely political maneuver” and stated that no one in the administration had previously sought military advice on what […]

The world is fighting an invisible enemy. The corona virus is bringing the economy to its knees and revealing smouldering fires in politics and society. But the crisis is also a catalyst for a structural change that may be overdue. Overcoming the crisis will require unusual efforts. An even greater challenge is to come to […]