Author: Christine Schier

Amid the fast-changing news arriving every day, it is useful to take a step back and reflect on the bigger strategic picture in the world. What emerges is that the world order that has prevailed since the end of the Cold War, at the latest, is undeniably finished. We have extensively covered various aspects of that breakdown in our newsletter, […]

The Schiller Institute is holding an in-person international conference on May 30-31 in Berlin, Germany, to take up the theme of How the End of 500 Years of Colonialism Will Benefit the Entire World. Such an event, the Schiller Institute points out, is urgent given the unprecedented upheavals in the world. “Not only have the nations of the Global South […]

On April 27, British King Charles III and Queen Camilla began a four-day state visit to the United States, in order to celebrate, according to Buckingham Palace, “the historic connections and the modern bilateral relationship” between Britain and the United States. Coming in the year of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution that severed those connections to the Empire […]

Now that the defeated Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán dropped its veto of the EU proposal, the way is open for the €90 billion “loan” to Kyiv from the European Union. The money is to be borrowed on capital markets, under a guarantee from EU member states. The breakdown of the guarantee will follow the usual procedure based on their share […]

Following the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on April 12, the Ukrainian authorities announced nine short days later that the Druzhba pipeline transporting Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia has just been re-opened. The Zelenskyy government had sworn for almost three months that it was simply a physical impossibility to transit the oil, due to the damage to […]

A new military strategy for the German armed forces has now been adopted, most of which remains secret. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, however, did unveil some of its contents in a statement to the public and parliament on April 22. To make a long story short, since Russia represents an acute military threat to Germany, he said, the Bundeswehr must […]

While mainstream media were focused on Donald Trump’s attacks against the Pope, Leo XIV’s trip to Africa (April 13-23) was an exemplary exercise of leadership in a world where adult leaders are all too few. In a press conference on the plane taking him back to Rome on April 23, Leo provided a lesson to governments on statecraft, as he […]

On the evening of April 24, just as Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was arriving in Islamabad for discussions with Pakistani government officials, Pakistan TV (PTV) broadcast an extensive interview on its news program with Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche. The Pakistani English-language state-owned television network, asked for her analysis of the prospects for a negotiated solution to the U.S. […]

Eight weeks after the launching of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, the economic shocks are already now reverberating throughout the world. The impact is compounded by the economic breakdown of the past two decades due primarily to the conflicts, “green deals”, sanctions and trade wars carried out by the trans-Atlantic powers. Experts point out that the situation will worsen very […]

On April 10, 1993, African National Congress leader Chris Hani, second only to Nelson Mandela in popularity and a leading candidate to succeed him as the president of the anti-apartheid movement, was assassinated in South Africa. In an interview with BizNews Radio this April 12, retired South African High Court Judge Chris Nicholson talks about the book he wrote in […]