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Germany draws up security strategies, not just billions of euros in investment

2022-03-26 21:36:06Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Germany draws up security strategies, not just billions of euros in investment

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had invited representatives of the diplomatic body to the foreign ministry's environments when she introduced the start of work for the National Security Strategy (18.03.2022). Germany is drafting such a national security strategy for the first time.

This has attracted attention in Europe after the historic German turn in military investment. An additional 100 billion euros for defence in 2022 and from 2023 over 75 billion euros a year, make Germany Europe's largest military power.

This historic change in Germany's foreign and security policy, proclaimed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, will now also be argued with a doctrine of Germany's security. The German government will explain with this Strategy Germany's position in the world and Germany's intentions.

Drafting a National Security Strategy, the German government had decided since the government coalition agreement. "We will present a comprehensive national security strategy in the first year of the new federal government," the agreement says.

At the same time, Russia's war against Ukraine represents a "geopolitical turn", as Foreign Minister Baerbock put it. With the war in Ukraine, the order of peace in Europe was broken. This awakens "a burning desire for security", which "perhaps my generation has never really felt", said Annalena Baerbock.

Work on drafting the Strategy is leading Germany's Foreign Ministry. But contributions to the Strategy will be made by the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Proposals are also expected from research institutions and civil initiatives. This broad involvement of German central institutions shows that Germany is determined to devise a very representative security strategy.

Even in 2016, a White Book on Security Policy and the Future of the Bundeswehr was drafted. But the document was left in limbo, and lost power for the fact that in its drafting, Germany's Defence Ministry did not include other institutions, such as p.sh. Ministry of Finance.

National Security Strategy – awareness and education process

Extraordinary investments for Germany's military were long needed. But these decisions, in the situation of the Russian attack against Ukraine were simply declared in the Bundestag. Therefore the National Security Strategy matters not only to the world, but especially to German public opinion. The several-month period of drafting the Strategy will gather not only additional impulses from institutional actors and German society. The arguments will also serve to environmentalise German public opinion with the military component.

For historical reasons, in Post-World War II Germany, an aversion to the military and the use of military violence has been fuelled to date as a means of protecting self-interest. As a result, public opinion in Germany today is mainly pacicastic. A significant proportion of opinion has had a friendly attitude towards Russia for decades.

German personalities speak out against Germany's armament

The decisions that Chancellor Schollz proclaimed for massive military investments are irreversible. They are supported by all parties represented in the Bundestag and will be fixed in Germany's constitution.

But rumours that the historic turnaround was not preceded by a public debate in Germany have begun. On Tuesday (22.03.) prominent personalities, scientists and politicians rejected a public appeal "Germany's largest armament since World War II". On appeal they leave no ambiguity: responsible for the war in Ukraine make Putin. But they write that "armament planned for decades, does not end deaths in Ukraine, does not make the world more peaceful and safe".

Such voices will be added when ukraine's first warfriend is posted to people's consciences. Political representatives' argument of the largest historical political turn in recent decades gains special importance in this framework.

Baerbock: "NATO presence in Southeast European countries"

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock outlined several directions for the work on drafting the National Security Strategy.

Germany commits to strengthening NATO's eastern wing. It has now been decided that Germany will make a substantial contribution to Slovakia. But not only that. The German Foreign Minister spoke of a NATO presence in Southeast Europe. "The entire eastern territory of the Alliance is under new threat, so we must establish NATO presence in Southeast European countries," Annalena Baerbock said.

The strategy will reinforce the need for Germany to participate in NATO nuclear intimidating. Baerbocku therefore restressed the decision to purchase American F-35 aircraft from Germany from Germany. The aim is to strengthen "defensive capacity", both from military and cyber attacks.

The German Foreign Minister expressed the need to embrace a broad concept of security. Annalena Baerbocku recalled that security also affects nonmilitary factors such as diplomacy, cultural work, education, sport, crisis media, even if the results are not seen "the next day". Besides diplomacy and economic co-operation, Baerbock also sought to act on instruments of "financial and substantive support". "Because as complex as crises are, so complex must be our answers."


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