Category: Security policy

For some time now, questions about German foreign and security policy have been piling up that need to be answered after the Bundestag elections. The COVID pandemic, the flood disaster in western Germany and, most recently, the evacuation from Afghanistan have shown that the Federal Republic of Germany's ability to act is reaching its limits time and time again. These crises affect not only our external security, but also many areas of politics and society. The question arises as to whether the system of government needs to be fundamentally adapted. Do we need a constitutional reform commission of enquiry again, as we did in the 1970s, to make recommendations on a broad parliamentary and societal basis for the reform of...