The Federal government has failed to strive with France to a single line in the Libya policy. Just one example of the reluctant German foreign policy in the last time.
Goes to Germany of the threatening Situation in Libya is really something? A long time observer of the political Berlin did not have the impression: rather. Meanwhile, the France-supported General Khalifa Haftar is in Tripoli, and his troops in fierce battle with the official government troops. Mind you, the government, which is the most internationally recognized of the country. Until very late in Berlin began, previously annoying subject in Paris.
No talks on Libya
Experts such as Wolfram Lacher of the Berlin Foundation science and policy in Germany’s passivity in the face of the determined action of France, a main reason for the escalating situation in Libya. Berlin had failed to discuss the topic there where it belong – namely at the very top. As the chief thing, between the French President, Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Now, says Lacher, “the Europeans have any control over this simmering conflict on its own doorstep in the Gulf States”.
Tripoli middle of the week: the funeral of those Killed, after Fighting between the government troops and the forces of the renegade General Haftar.
Because of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is reported to flow both fresh money as well as weapons in a conflict that could trigger the next wave of refugees towards Europe. You know “the reports,” it said on Wednesday this week, tight-lipped from the Federal foreign office in Berlin. Specifically, they are working to bring a common UN Resolution on the way that should help calm the situation. Germany leads this month in the security Council of the United Nations in the chair. It sounds a bit as do the German government simply continue as before, although the situation is now quite different.
Germany and the Ukraine
For irritation also of the visit of the now defeated President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, in front of a good two weeks in Berlin, a few days before the runoff presidential elections. Merkel, who has openly and long set to Poroshenko, received by him only in a striking temporal proximity to election day. But also at a time, as in the polls in the Ukraine long ago reading was that Poroshenko would soon be the former President. French President Macron received both Poroshenko and the comedian Volodymyr Selenskyj, was elected with over 70% of the vote for the successor to Poroshenko.
Reception for the eventual losers of the Election: Petro Poroshenko, Angela Merkel, in Berlin on 12. April.
Macron skillful than Merkel
The French President was so much more skilled than Merkel and is open to held at an early stage, all options: The Chancellor was instead a strange loyalty to Poroshenko, who had already fallen on election night in Kiev from the time. The Minsk process is the only tangible attempt to the open conflict between Russia and the Ukraine under control, actually, a success of German foreign policy. And the difficult peace process must keep Merkel now, with the new President Selenskyj alive. The French President is not formulated now surprisingly clear that there was “inconsistencies” with Merkel only when the subject of Ukraine. And he fired a broadside gen Berlin: The German government is in a special Situation, Germany “probably at the end of a growth model”, and I have benefited greatly from the imbalances in the Euro area.
There is now also officially “inconsistencies”: Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron.
Criticism from friends because of Nord Stream 2
And the leading candidate of Merkel’s Conservatives for the European elections in late may, the CSU politician Manfred Weber, the German head of government, most recently, at a further important topic is open in the back: the Pipeline North Stream project, 2, the Gas from Russia directly to Germany to deliver over to Poland and the Ukraine. Weber said that the Direct supply of Gas from Russia was “in the interest of the EU”. Therefore, he will try to stop the project, if he will Commission the new President of the EU, according to Weber, in an Interview with a Polish newspaper. The opportunities for Weber to get to the top of the EU Commission, are not bad.
Past of Ukraine and Poland, Gas directly from Russia to Germany: The controversial Nord Stream project 2.
On Friday, he reiterated in the Second German television his Position. He understand the attitude of the Federal government in this matter, but in Europe take responsibility and must act accordingly. Projects like the gas pipeline from Russia in the future need “to be in coordination with our neighbors,” such as Denmark, Poland and the Baltic States, but also of Ukraine” decided, called Weber.
The Chancellor had resisted this long to recognise what was from the first day, many observers clear that Nord Stream 2 is a highly political and not a “purely economic” project, as Merkel it for a long time had formulated. She gave up this line first, as an EU Partner after the other on the barricades went up. After all, this knowledge was already, before the US Ambassador in Berlin, Richard Grenell, threatened the German company open to sanctions should they participate more in the project.
..and now Africa
Next week the Chancellor is traveling to Africa. Her sudden interest in the continent’s crisis of 2015 and 2016, grew up after the so-called refugee. Since then, Merkel has formulated a number of billion-dollar development projects initiated and open, that the money should be used from Germany to fight the causes of Flight.
The Chancellor in the autumn of 2016 in a primary school in Niger. In a few days, you visited the country again.
Merkel used the German presidency of the G20 two years ago to promote their new focus on Africa. Since 2015, when around a Million people came mainly from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and African countries to Germany, they were often that the error was of your government to the humanitarian support for people in their home countries is not sufficiently observed. So the people moved on, to Europe, to Germany. Now Merkel wants to create in Africa local and regional perspectives. Depending on how you look at it, she works here, too, a crisis that has been long overlooked. Or puts you in a rare German accent in international politics.