Influential politicians from the smaller governing party, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, have issued a manifesto calling for an end to confrontational politics & for cooperation with Russia
- Wolfgang Lieberknecht
- 11. Juni
- 1 Min. Lesezeit
SPD politicians call for fundamental foreign policy U-turn, cooperation with Russia, an ‘end to militarisation,’ rejection of higher defence spending and new US missiles in Germany.
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According to a report, numerous prominent SPD politicians are calling for an immediate reversal of foreign and security policy in a policy paper. In the document, described as a ‘manifesto’ and obtained by Stern magazine, the authors urge talks with Russia and a halt to the deployment of new US medium-range missiles in Germany.
The signatories, including former parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich, foreign policy expert Ralf Stegner, former party leader Norbert Walter-Borjans and former Federal Finance Minister Hans Eichel, are thus representing a line that fundamentally deviates from the course of the federal government and the SPD leadership.
According to the ‘manifesto,’ forces have gained the upper hand in Germany and most European countries that see the future ‘primarily in a strategy of military confrontation and hundreds of billions of euros for rearmament.’ ‘Military alarm rhetoric and huge armament programmes do not create more security for Germany and Europe, but lead to destabilisation and a strengthening of the mutual perception of threat between NATO and Russia.’
The SPD politicians are calling for several concrete measures, including talks with Russia. What is needed now, they say, is a ‘gradual return to détente in relations and cooperation with Russia’.
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