Germany: No radical departure from the proven foreign policy traditions
Germany: No radical departure from the proven foreign policy traditions

Summary/Abstract: If everything goes according to plan for the so called “traffic light” coalition parties (the article was submitted in late October 2021– ed.), Olaf Scholz will be elected as Germany’s next chancellor. The very cooperative, professional and smooth process of the exploratory talks so far suggests that the parties involved have a real interest in governing Germany together for the next four years. The issue of the country’s foreign and security policy has not played a prominent role, either in the election campaign or in the exploratory talks. It is quite obvious that the priorities of the negotiating parties lie in other policy areas. In a joint document (“Sondierungspapier”), the coalition parties have laid down the first key points; however, these are still quite vague and will have to be fleshed out in further negotiations. In particular, the issue of the German foreign and security policy is only dealt with as the very last point in this paper.

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