Demand for far reaching shaping of the world
BERLIN The German Federal Chancellor has taken up the proposal by an influential political expert who wishes to contest ,,World Hegemony"with the USA. In a government statement the Chancellor demanded world-wide ,,enforcement of law"accompanied by police and military forces. Chancellor Schroeder called for the EU to develop corresponding military capabilities.
In his government statement of 3 April Schroeder demanded for the first time that a regime change must take place in Iraq. This corresponds with the invading powers who used this objective as the basis for aggression against Iraq, a UN member. By making this demand the Social Democrat Chancellor incorporated into the government statement the essential points of a strategy paper ,,New Order in Iraq according to European Principles". Berlin sees in this the opportunity of using the invasion of Iraq for an ethnically ( ,,voelkisch") based ,,New Order"for the whole region. 1)Schroeder calls this a ,,political stabilising process"for the Near and Middle East under a guarantee of ,,the rights of the minorities living there".
The Chancellor's speech has awakened public expectations that Germany deserves to be among ,,the victorious powers in Iraq".
Risky
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungcomments that this ,,testifies to a far-reaching demand for reordering in the world". This demand was apparent in the theme ,,enforcement of law"over the whole globe. By this Germany had taken a fundamentally new international alignment. The newspaper continued ,,Germany has used its sovereignty in earnest. The country is 'emancipating' itself from America". Berlin's foreign policy was ,,seductive". ,,Right in its beginning but (...) in the end certainly risky". The German Chancellor foresaw ,,a long arduous process with set backs from time to time".
1) See earlier article Berlin wants ethnic ,,New Order"in Gulf region
See also earlier article The will to world power
Sourches:
Governmanet statement of 3 April 2003 on the interntaional situation and conclusions of European Council in Brussels; www.bundesregierung.de
It is America; Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung 4/4/03
Germany should become an adult. Chancellor plays national card. A risky game; Frankfurter Allgemeiner Sonntagszeitung 6/4/03
A Dimension like Brandt's ,,Ostpolitik". Left wing intellectuals in SPD (Social Democrat Party) see conflict with USA as ,,detonator"for a new Europe; Welt am Sonntag 6/4/03