Accused by MPs from Cdu-Csu out of lack of leadershipcursed by left for that, a turn around in the national policy against the supply of arms to a theater of war, also accused by the AfD out of do not keep equidistance the German Chancellor on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict Olaf Scholz He entrusted the illustration of his political line to a contribution to the world.
The war started from Wladimir Putin it not only affects Ukraine, explains Scholz, but “it is directed against everything that embodies democracy: freedom, equal rights in law, self-determination, Would Humane”. Against all this pact, all democratic countries are taking sides like never before and “that shows what unites us democrats: the conviction that the law must justify limits to power“.
“Only democracy” is able to solve the problems of the 21st century,” asserts the Chancellor; Europe is higher than China and Russia innate in solving problems capitalism howclimate emergency. “Looking at the enormous environmental problems in Chinese cities or the underpreparation of the Russian economy for a post-fossil fuel era leaves no doubt.” This is why international cooperation is needed and Europeans have been using it for decades European Union. According to Scholz, a life “in freedom, justice and dignity” is not an ideal restricted to western countries; they are “humanistic values that are shared by all people across time and borders”. Because of this, people around the world share “sadness, sorrow, and anger” by seeing images of women, men, and children Bucha or other places in Ukraine.
For the Pandemic and the reflections of War there economic growth According to the government advisory group eccomic, Germany will only be 1.8 percent in 2022, even if gross domestic product grew by 0.2 percent in the first quarter of the year compared to the previous year.
The need to come out with an article in the country’s important conservative newspaper, Scholz hopes to make up ground again in terms of public communication. At least compared to his ministers, both green, Robert Habeck (economy) e Annalena Baerbock (Abroad): According to the polls of the public television Ard, they climbed to the top of the ranking of the most popular politicians (56 percent), while the chancellor only fell to fifth place and only 39 percent of those polled were convinced by the Institute Infratest dimap. Scholz has suffered a 12 percent drop since September 2021, when he was elected. The surveys of the other public broadcaster ZdF also come to similar results, according to which Baerbock meets with approval from 70 percent of those surveyed, Habeck receives approval from 66 percent, while the CEO remains constant at 49 percent. In fact, 43 percent expressed a negative opinion.
On the other hand, the question of German support for Ukraine is discussed more than we care to admit. In the Ard survey, for example, the champion splits into three parts: 35 percent find Germany’s commitment to Kyiv appropriateon the 31st insufficient and 27 exaggerated. In the polls published by ZdF, exactly half of the respondents say that what the government grants to Ukraine is enough, but for 32 they do too small and for 13 too.
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The clear majority in parliament for the direct delivery of hooks to Ukraine is also thinning in the polls. 52 percent of the Infratest Dimap respondents for the Ard say they would like that more military aidbut 40 percent would like more prudence not to provoke Russia and on the specific delivery of heavy weapons in the Ukraine the opinions are between for and against at 45. The competitor ZdF, on the other hand, registers a majority of 56 percent for the delivery of heavy weapons systems compared to 39 percent against.
This division is reflected in the German public debate. With an open letter several personalities, including the feminist Alice Blackwriter Martin Walser and the science journalist Ranga Yogewarthey invited Scholz Do not surrender heavy weapons Ukraine to prevent Putin from escalating the conflict. On the other side of the CDU politicians Roderich Kiesewetter Speaking on TV, he stressed that this is under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter right to self-defenseFrom the point of view of international law, Germany would not be a party to the conflict if, in addition to arms, it were also there in view of a future request for intervention by Ukraine also sent soldiers. Scholz finds himself right in the middle again.