Germany’s Coalition Parties Stick With Unpopular Leaders Ahead of Snap Election
Defence secretary Boris Pistorius will not challenge Olaf Scholz for the social democrats’ candidacy for chancellor.
Defence secretary Boris Pistorius will not challenge Olaf Scholz for the social democrats’ candidacy for chancellor.
NATO states are stepping up surveillance of pipelines and cables.
Conscription proposal sparks unease among ruling coalition members
New details have emerged of how Russian spies were able to hack into a conversation of high-ranking German officers.
The German military has to be transformed to meet the potential threat of armed conflict, Pistorius said.
The sudden decision to deploy 4,000 troops has nothing to do with Wagner potentially regrouping in neighboring Belarus, the German Defense Ministry insists.
Little had been said about the pipeline investigation for months, either by governments or the media, until Hersh’s report was published.
Germany had initially planned to withdraw forces by 2024, but a ban on flying drones by the increasingly pro-Russian Malian government makes current participation unviable.
Berlin made itself unpopular by refusing to send Ukraine its German-made Leopard II tanks, and forbidding any NATO allies that have them from doing so as well.
Given that Germany’s Bundeswehr is ailing—a matter compounded by the Russo-Ukrainian war—the task set before Boris Pistorius is nothing if not daunting.