The thorny issue of how to manage Vladimir Putin’s Russia is one of the biggest foreign-policy challenges facing Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, who has come under fire for his perceived passivity in the face of Moscow aggression towards Ukraine. Where does Germany’s foreign-policy stance come from? How has it evolved over time? And will Scholz’s strategy be more of the same? Andrew Mueller speaks to Ulrike Franke, Quentin Peel and John Kampfner.

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