October 03, 2018

Christian Mölling on German Defense Spending, Burden-Sharing, and Strategic Autonomy

By: Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend and Christian Mölling

Christian Mölling, the deputy director of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), sits down with Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss the conversations happening in the German Bundestag right now about defense spending, burden sharing, and strategic autonomy amid shifting transatlantic dynamics.

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