Podcast
Foreign policy is actually not an issue in Germany that decides elections. The crisis in Afghanistan could change that. A policy expert explains what these effects might look like.
While the evacuation flights of the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan are slowly taking off, the reactions of many German politicians to the crisis continue to appear helpless. In the podcast “Today important”, political scientist Ursula Münch from the Academy for Civic Education sees the danger of creating the impression of political failure. Right-wing populist parties like the AfD would indulge in distrust of the state’s ability to act. With a view to the election, she says: A foreign policy crisis situation combined with a humanitarian crisis – “something can actually change again in the mood”.
Laschet wants to stay connected
Münch believes that the statement by Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet that 2015 should “not be repeated” was deliberately chosen in order to be politically compatible for as many people as possible: Union supporters who wanted a strong state could read into it that there were no supposedly uncontrolled refugees People would be allowed into the country. “And those who alternate between the Greens and the CDU as voters can interpret that there shouldn’t be another humanitarian catastrophe like this,” says Münch.
Stuck on the street
Activists have been protesting in Berlin for more climate protection since Monday. The protests are largely organized by Extinction Rebellion, a climate group that is not satisfied with demonstrations, but instead relies on civil disobedience. In Berlin they block streets and occupy squares. Some are chained or glued to each other to drag out the police operations. In the podcast, the young activist Luisa explains why she is taking part in the protests. “We no longer have to wait until the last climate denier has understood that time is up and that we have to act now,” she says. And she also finds the movement’s tougher forms of protest appropriate: “Civil disobedience is the last chance politicians can show how important climate protection is.”
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