Tag: Defense policy
EU defense policy: Fall of the wall in Denmark – Opinion
And again Vladimir Putin has forged the continent a little closer together. Anyone who had predicted that the Danes of all people would one day enthusiastically embrace a European project…
Sweden announces application to join NATO – Politics
Sweden was a neutral and non-aligned nation for more than 200 years, Finland for eight decades. Now it is over. “We are leaving one era and going into another,” said…
Scholz in the committee: Strack-Zimmermann imagined that differently – politics
How this morning begins again for Olaf Scholz: 8.02 a.m. in the Bundestag, Paul-Löbe-Haus. In front of the room where the Defense Committee meets for the special session, Chairwoman Marie-Agnes…
Bundeswehr: sunroofs for barracks – politics
How the Bundeswehr can be equipped with significantly more money in the long term in addition to the planned special fund of 100 billion euros – this deadlocked debate between…
Defense Minister Lambrecht declares her son’s flight – politics
Federal Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) spoke publicly for the first time on Wednesday about the controversial flight of her adult son in a government helicopter to North Friesland, where…
Lambrecht in need of explanation because of helicopter flight – politics
Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) is under political pressure because she took her adult son on a government helicopter trip to North Friesland in April. Immediately afterwards she went on…
Missions abroad: Bundeswehr completes training of Malian soldiers
Defense Minister Lambrecht justified the decision on Mali with the political conditions in the military-ruled country. source site
Better a bad war than peace – politics
The news has been a bit lost in recent days, but a street in a suburb of the Ukrainian city of Odessa has been named after British Prime Minister Boris…
Bundeswehr: Rain in Lower Bavaria is far ahead of the “turn of the era” – Bavaria
Almost everyone in the rain in Lower Bavaria has a connection to the Bundeswehr, and the Panzergrenadier battalion stationed in the village enjoys respect. Even a tragedy in Afghanistan has…
Sipri report: arms spending at record level – politics
According to peace researchers, global arms spending reached a record level last year. States worldwide invested 2,113 billion US dollars (about 1,956 billion euros) in their armed forces last year,…