Germany’s election campaign is creating a security risk
Voters are not being prepared for the difficult decisions ahead
IN FEBRUARY 2022, three days after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, declared a generational change in foreign and security policy. In his Zeitenwende, or “turning-point”, address to the Bundestag Mr Scholz announced a raft of changes to Germany’s diplomatic, security and energy posture, ranging from a long-term promise to meet the nato defence-spending target of 2% of gdp to bolstering energy resilience. “The world afterwards”, he said, “will no longer be the same as the world before.”
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