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Democratic Security
What Cards Does Central Europe Hold in The World Governed by Power?
15 January 2026
4 July 2024
Marcin Król Fellow
The French elections on Sunday cast a shadow over France, Germany and Poland’s shared priorities. Will the Weimar Triangle deliver leadership on Ukraine, for Europe’s sake?
The Weimar Triangle foreign ministers from Germany, France, and Poland – Annalena Baerbock, Stéphane Séjourné, and Radosław Sikorski – have a clear agenda they want to tackle together.
“We can no longer afford a foreign policy on autopilot,” said German Foreign Minister Baerbock during a meeting of the three in Weimar on May 22 this year.
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Philipp Fritz is a Marcin Król Fellow 2024 at Visegrad Insight. He studied political science and cultural studies at the University of Bremen and the JU in Krakow. He began his journalistic career at the Berliner Zeitung and has also written articles for Die Zeit and Tageszeitung, and in Poland for Gazeta Wyborcza. Since 2018, he has been a foreign correspondent for WELT and WELT AM SONNTAG, responsible for East Central Europe. His reports and analyses also appear in Switzerland and in the French and Polish press. Philipp is an expert on rule of law issues and international politics and security policy in Europe. Read Philipp’s articles
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