How sensitive are our parties to maritime issues? This autumn, Germany will elect its 20th Bundestag and it has become a tradition for us to look at the parties' election manifestos and their maritime content! We started the series with the election programme of the Free Democrats (FDP), in...
On Sunday, 26 September 2021, Germany will elect its 20th Bundestag - a good occasion and now a tradition for our blog #meerverstehen to take a closer look at the parties' election manifestos in terms of their maritime content! It is a truism that everything is connected to everything else: The modern global economy cannot exist without...
Berlin, the Navy & Procurement The year 2021 continues to promise excitement: in the second year of a global pandemic, there are signs of noticeable change and transformation in the political firmament of the republic in view of the upcoming Bundestag elections in September. It is understandable that Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg) are endeavouring to...
Summary: Strategic foreign policy is what the EU must master in order to meet the challenges of the 21st century. In doing so, it must strive for the ability to act in all areas and not just primarily on the civilian side of sustainable development. Beyond peacemaking, it must face up to adversity...
The election for the 17th state parliament of Baden-Württemberg will take place in around two weeks' time. The state currently governed by Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) is not only criss-crossed by the important rivers Rhine, Neckar, Danube, Kocher, Jagst and Tauber, but also has a large number of lakes in addition to Lake Constance with their influence on nature,...
The living generation cannot remember ever seeing certainties disappear as quickly as we have experienced in recent years. This goes hand in hand with new political, social and technical trends, the consequences of which nobody can predict. The topics of digitalisation, cyber and climate are just as much a part of the maritime world as...
The Arctic has increasingly become the focus of public attention in recent years. But even in German-speaking countries, it is no longer climate change alone that characterises interest in the High North. There is an increasing number of reports and features from the High North, in which new harbours, shipping routes, c...
Innovations and technologies of the third EGV The third EGV was handed over to the German Navy with the ceremonial commissioning of the task force provider (EGV) BONN on 13 September 2013 in Wilhelmshaven - externally similar to the first two sister ships BERLIN and FRANKFURT AM MAIN, but technically a clear innovation. An operational...
Around 80 guests from politics, business, science, associations and the navy accepted the invitation of the German Maritime Institute (DMI) to the 7th Maritime Colloquium in Wilhelmshaven on 18 June under the motto "Maritime Innovation & Digitalisation". The event, which was jointly organised by DMI, griephan, the German Naval Association and Flotilla 2, was also supported by the...
We have carefully read the article on the 59th Naval Historical-Tactical Conference in the current issue of MarineForum. We were particularly interested in the reference to the presentation "Cross-shots - lateral thinking - change of course: Jimmy Mann's Sylt fleet": "Vice Admiral Hans-Joachim Mann took on a new role in 1991 at the beginning of his assignment as eighth...
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