Munich Security Conference
Comment: Merkel can only fail
Two Absent have the Munich security conference: Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin. The Chancellor is fighting for political Survival, and the Russian President is pleased‘s – says Christian F. Trippe.
John McCain is a political warhorse. The Republican from Arizona, reads the Europeans once a year and the Levites, and like his role as gnarled Kassandra policy. His appearance at the Munich security conference belongs to the transatlantic Folklore. But this year began, McCain delivered his speech with a remarkable, because out of his mouth unexpected praise: He thanked Chancellor Angela Merkel for her strong leadership.
Merkel losing allies
It has to be in the USA with the news that the German Chancellor is under a political pressure, the Ministry and the Americans a reliable ally could cost. Merkel this year was not on the security conference, but their political fate is in Munich, however, mitverhandelt, maybe even a firm decision.
On the open stage, the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls in Munich made it clear that his country, the German refugee rejects. France wants no additional refugees; and Paris is bracing itself against Merkel’s Plan, in the EU, a kind of Verteilschlüssel for migrants are bound to make. This loses, Merkel is also the last hope of a strong ally in the refugee question. At the EU summit next week, it can only fail.
DW correspondent Christian F. Trippe
Emasculated diplomacy in the Ukraine crisis
The refugee crisis is already now so much of their political energy is absorbed, that Angela Merkel of many unnoticed – even on another field, the issue of the action loses. Two years ago, when Russia, the Ukrainian Peninsula of Crimea annexed and a separatist rebellion in Eastern Ukraine with weapons and fighters, supported, took over Germany the lead in the Krisendiplomatie. The USA held back, U.S. President Barack Obama let the Germans go first.
In the last few weeks, but switched to the USA more in the Ukraine-crisis and tried with the means of quiet diplomacy, the so-called Minsk agreement, to breathe new life into. In negotiations conducted behind closed doors loteten the Americans with the Russians, whether the agreement at all can still be saved. Certainly would be Obama in the autumn of his presidency, a friedenspolitischer success just right. However, it is more: The deutsche Ukraine-diplomacy is in the last few months, strength and saftlos become.
Moscow comes weakening Merkel’s located
A context jumps into the eye: The more refugees came to Germany, the less political energy could the Chancellor’s office for other topics to spend. In this very obvious interplay want to some observers, a gigantic conspiracy to recognize: In Syria to create Vladimir Putin’s bombs on Bashar al-Assad’s opponents more and more refugees, whose influx to Germany again, Merkel weakens and may have to case brings. Which Yes would prove that Putin is like a puppeteer migration guide and Kanzlerinnenschicksale can decide. Now Yes, a number remains small, the finding is striking: Without the question of Russia, the weakening of Merkel’s located; on the other side, even the United States, that the refugee crisis the European project as a whole and acutely the chancellorship from Angela Merkel threatened.
This global political situation sneaked up on the security conference even in the Banquet hall. Because of their refugee policy is Merkel in Germany, especially the Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer criticized. He is the Chancellor recently also in foreign Affairs from the back please, with a visit to Putin in Moscow. This visit took place, Senator John McCain is so unappetizing, that he on Saturday evening, an invitation Seehofers to a celebratory Dinner in Munich is not followed.
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