The Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the CDU parliamentary group are united in calling for German industry to receive more support from the BMZ for its investments in the Global South and for development cooperation to be at least partially tied to deliveries in future. Roger Peltzer evaluates these demands and assesses whether and to what extent the deficits diagnosed by the BDI and CDU actually exist.

Interview with Bernt Hagenlocher, Senior Investment Manager in the Business Support Service Team of DEG Impulse gGmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of DEG-Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft in Cologne. Can development cooperation (DC) bring about institutional change in Germany’s partner countries?

Can development cooperation regain public acceptance? Jürgen Zattler, Head of Department at the BMZ until 2023, and Roger Peltzer have published an article on epo.de. Development cooperation (DC) is being criticized. Many people are asking why Germany should spend money

Almost 1 billion euros in savings in the BMZ budget, 800 million euros in humanitarian aid savings in the Federal Foreign Office budget: does German development cooperation still have any geopolitical significance at all? Can the BMZ budget grow again