Imagine Armin Laschet in tough negotiations with Vladimir Putin.
Annalena Baerbock in a clinch with Xi Jinping.
Or Olaf Scholz, infected by the European panache of Emmanuel Macron.
Can't you do that?
Then maybe that's because the Chancellor candidate and Chancellor candidate spoke little about the upcoming challenges of German foreign policy during the election campaign.
Or even the fact that Germans are not that interested in what's happening behind their own borders.
“The explanation for this is complicated and yet very simple,” says Mathieu von Rohr, head of the SPIEGEL foreign affairs department, “Germans are already interested in what is happening in the world;
they just don't see Germany as one of the key players.
Germany actually wants to be like a big Switzerland: a country that trades with everyone and does not have to take on great responsibility in the world «.
Foreign policy to-do list of the future government
But the calls from friendly foreign countries that Germany should live up to its position in the EU, NATO and the western world and get more involved are getting louder.
And the tasks ahead are getting bigger and more complicated.
In this episode of "Eight Billion" Mathieu von Rohr discusses the future government's foreign policy to-do list with host Olaf Heuser:
1. Stabilize the EU
2. Bring new life into the alliance with the USA
3. Define the relationship with Russia
4. Deal with the new world power China
5. Solve global problems such as pandemics and climate change together
You can hear the current episode here:
