Communications

Despite its growing visibility, the degrowth agenda finds limited appeal in politics and in public discourse.

The world’s political order is in upheaval. Janka Oertel speaks about the 5G dispute and Germany’s role in formulating a new European China policy.

“France is at war,” declared the French President, François Hollande, in front of the Congress of the French Parliament on 16th November 2015. He was using the same words as Le Monde on 14th November and Manuel Valls the same evening on TF1 television news. The Prime Minister then said that Islamic State (IS) would lose the struggle, but he admitted that it was only just beginning.