Newsletter 2014/07/03 - The Elite Wants More (German campaign for a more aggressive world policy) THE CDU & THE GERMAN GREENS WANT A MORE AGGRESSIVE FOREIGN POLICY Newsletter 2014/07/03 - The Elite Wants More BERLIN (Own report) - The CDU and Green party-affiliated foundations have been holding conferences with prominent experts to continue Germanys campaign by elite circles to promote a more aggressive German global policy. Ultimately, a public discussion of the security policys soft and hard factors must take place, insisted the head of the Policy Department of the German Defense Ministry, Monday at a conference held by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. At the Heinrich Boell Foundation, just shortly before, the audience was told that a pacifist Sonderweg (special path) cannot be permitted. Germany must finally come out of the comfort zone. According to the reader published by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, it must be accepted that it may become necessary to take action outside the current international legal framework. The reader calls for the creation of a national security bureau within the chancellery, patterned after the US-American National Security Council, and to significantly upgrade the equipment of Germanys intelligence services. Decisions on foreign military missions should, thereby, be structurally facilitated. more german-foreign-policy/en/fulltext/58764
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 23:02:00 +0000
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