In Berlin
In the conference room of the House of the economy of Karlsruhe (Baden-Württemberg), they were fifty in this mid-July, divided into small groups around round tables.
Fifty German citizens drawn by lot, representative of society.
Students and retirees, office workers, executives and workers gathered to discuss a subject that was rather foreign to them until then: the security and defense policy of their country.
Experts are there, as well as a distinguished guest: the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock, who has multiplied these appointments for a month, microphone in hand, to answer the inhabitants.
In Karlsruhe as elsewhere, the discussion quickly turns around the consequences of the war in Ukraine and international politics on the daily life of Germans.
“How are we going to make it through the winter if we run out of gas?”
, asks a young man.
“Should military service be reinstated if Russia threatens us?”
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