The past and the pipeline hamper strategy for Ukraine
When Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, shook hands on a coalition deal with his liberal-green partners in December, they energetically vowed to “risk more progress”.
However, a little less than two months on, Berlin’s allies in Kyiv, Washington and neighbouring European capitals worry that it remains stuck in passive old ways. As tension mounts on the border between Russia and Ukraine, they fear Scholz is falling back on foreign policy instincts honed by his most recent centre-left predecessor, the ex-chancellorturned-lobbyist Gerhard Schröder.
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