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Thorsten Benner
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Co-Founder & Director, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin.
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    May 27
    Ludwig Erhard würde Peking Paroli bieten. Für Ordoliberale ist das Vorgehen gegen die unfairen Praktiken von Chinas Staatskapitalismus Ordnungsschutz, nicht Protektionismus. Meine Kolumne im @handelsblatt
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    Jan 22, 2023
    "US offers used tanks from its own stocks plus long term industrial partnership to every European country that can deliver Leopard 2 to 🇺🇦", 🇩🇪 defence industry circles claim. "Each country that accepts US offer is lost for 🇩🇪defence industry".
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    Deutsche Panzerdebatte: Welche Rolle spielen amerikanische Rüstungsinteressen?
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    Thorsten Benner
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    Aug 25, 2025
    FAZ claims that Trump tried to call Modi four times in recent weeks but that Modi refused the calls.
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    Feb 23, 2025
    Merz: „Absolutely no illusions“ about Trump. Goal needs to be step by step independence from a US who „pretty much no longer cares about fate of 🇪🇺“. „Unclear whether we will still speak of NATO in present shape“ by time of June summit or we need to come up with 🇪🇺alternative.
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    Thorsten Benner
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    Aug 24, 2022
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    Thorsten Benner
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    Sep 6, 2022
    Baerbock to business leaders: "We paid for every cubic feet of 🇷🇺gas three times with our national security". "We need to anchor in 🇨🇳strategy what we learned from🇷🇺dependence". "We & you can no longer afford 'Business First' without factoring in long term dependencies & risks".
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    Thorsten Benner
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    May 2, 2022
    „What‘s your message to Russia?“ x.com/ARDBruessel/st…
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    Thorsten Benner
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    Apr 3, 2022
    „This is how the Russian state will now be perceived. This is your image“.
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    Thorsten Benner
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    Apr 10, 2022
    Read this interview with Karaganov (reliable bellwether of 🇷🇺ruling elite majority consensus). If afterwards you still harbor any illusions about sustainable negotiated settlement with Putin's Kremlin on European security order read it again. And again.
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    Sergey Karaganov: «We are at war with the West. The European security order is illegitimate»
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    Thorsten Benner
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    Apr 7, 2022
    Robert Habeck & Annalena Baerbock are now Germany's two most favorite politicians. tagesschau.de/inland/deutsch…
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    Thorsten Benner
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    Jul 12, 2024
    “Ich glaube, daß ich ein anderes Verhältnis zu Fakten habe als Sie”. Eine bewundernswerte Lehrstunde effektiver Kommunikation, wie ruhig & bestimmt @ClaudMajor die Behauptungen von @SWagenknecht einordnet. Großer Respekt. x.com/sisu_esse/stat…
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    Thorsten Benner
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    Apr 22, 2022
    Genau so ist es.
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    Thorsten Benner
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    Oct 21, 2025
    The Nexperia effect. Volkswagen prepares stopping production of Golf and Tiguan in Wolfsburg as of next week. It will likely run out of chips by the end of the week.
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    Thorsten Benner
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    Jul 31, 2022
    70% of Germans in favor of extending nuclear power plants, 20% against. 54% of Green party voters in favor, 38% against. (Insa poll for BILD)
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