Weekly News Digest

Ampelkoalition and the German Budget
Germany’s Scholz Averts Coalition Meltdown over Budget – Matthew Karnitschnig, Nette Nöstlinger, and Jürgen Klöckner, Politico
Änderungen beim Bürgergeld: Die Ampel hat verstanden, dass es abermals einen Wandel braucht – Daniel Friedrich Sturm, Tagesspiegel
Olaf Scholz Unveils Budget after Tensions inside German Coalition – Guy Chazan, Financial Times
Was der Haushaltsentwurf der Ampel vorsieht – Ivana Sokola, ZEIT

NATO Summit
Will NATO Still Exist in 25 Years? – Andrew Latham, The Hill
Reality Check – Edward Luces, CEPA
A Better Path for Ukraine and NATO – M.E. Sarotte, Foreign Affairs
Can Germany Lead Europe in NATO? – Michaela Küfner, Deutsche Welle
Europe Is Quietly Debating a Nuclear Future Without the US – Laura Kayali, Thorsten Jungholt, and Philipp Fritz, Politico
So denken Deutsche und Amerikaner über die NATO – Oliver Kühn, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Macron’s Gamble
In a Referendum on Le Pen, French Voters Said ‘Non’. This Opportunity Must Not Be Squandered – Paul Taylor, The Guardian
Frankreich-Wahl: Aufatmen in Teilen Europas – Bernd Riegert, Deutsche Welle
Parlamentswahl in Frankreich: Es ist höchste Zeit für Kompromisse – Nina Belz, Neue Züricher Zeitung

Elections in the UK
Keir Starmer and Labour’s Massive Victory – Dov S. Zakheim, The Hill
Starmer’s Priorities: Fixing Britain Will Come First – Nick Witney, European Council on Foreign Relations
Das historische Debakel der Konservativen – Thomas Kieliner, Welt

Superwahljahr
How Big Elections Are Changing the World in 2024 – Sammy Westfall, Washington Post
Termine absagen, bitte – Susanne Beyer, Spiegel

European Industry
How Europe Can Fix Its Competitiveness Problem – Jakob Hafele, Project Syndicate
EU Election’s Shift to Right Signals Green Industrial Deal Validation – Dave Keating, Euractiv
Europe Can’t Afford the Far Right’s Fiscal Policies – Bloomberg