The authors of the appeal – the Prime Minister of Saxony Michael KretschmerPrime Minister of Brandenburg Dietmar Woidke and head of the CDU in Thuringia Mario Voigtthey want to Germany “they acted a more active diplomatic role in close coordination with its European neighbors and partners.
“A strong and united alliance is needed to deliver Russia do negotiation table. Germany i European Union were too hesitant to follow this path,” they said. In their opinion the broader the international alliance, the greater the pressure will be.
“It's about reaching a ceasefire and offering Ukraine reliable safety guarantee” – say Kretschmer, Woidke and Voigt in “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeintung”.
War in Ukraine. A call from politicians. “We would do well to listen to Poland”
They referred to the role in their text eastern neighbors of Germany. “We, Germans, We would do well to listen to our eastern partnerssuch as Poland and the Baltic countries, on these fundamental issues of security and peace,” they wrote, without going into details.
For my part Germany must take a defensible position, the politicians demanded. “Just like during the Cold War, this is only possible from a strong position. Deployment plans medium-range missiles in the western Länder should be better explained and discussed more widely. Military force only makes sense when combined with wise diplomacy” – say Kretschmer, Woidke and Voigt.
War and political games in Germany. The key role of the left-wing party
German media point out that the authors of the appeal are addicted to support for the left-wing Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) when forming government coalitions after the elections in their federal states. BSW set a condition for committing against it arms supplies to Ukraine and against the deployment of American medium-range missiles in Germany.
Wagenknecht recently proposed to include this in the preambles of coalition treaties – recalled the website of the weekly “Spiegel”. The BSW leader praised the joint article by leading politicians from Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia with an appeal for ceasefire in Russia's war against Ukrainecalling him “wise and diverse” in a statement for “FAZ”.
Leader CDU and the Christian Democrat candidate for Chancellor of Germany Friedrich Merz However, he distanced himself from the position of the three politicians. “Ukraine is fighting for survival,” he told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. “We must continue to help her in our own interest. Peace talks will only be possible if both sides want it” – Merz stated.
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