If a pillar-Saint of his column descends, then the situation must be serious. And Erhard Eppler (92) is a pillar Saint of the SPD. He has now set up a conversation circle “peace 2.0”. Yesterday, for the first time, met.
Not only that, Eppler honorary member of the basic value Commission – as several Church tags President, as one of the outstanding figures of the peace and ecology movement, as a pioneer of modern development of policy in the Minister rank, he is something like the foreign policy Conscience of the SPD. He supported the Kosovo war and the Afghanistan deployment of the Bundeswehr within the framework of Nato. A few years ago. Eppler returns now back in the political discussion, because the current price is of concern to Russia after the Crimea crisis and conflict in Ukraine and, Yes, even depressed.
The reason for its repeated Intervention in the field of foreign policy is not least in the Biographical. All of his stations in life have shaped him – including the not so often spoken; Eppler was a soldier for two years in world war II. Since then, what horror drives him, how much Germany has done militarily, not least in relation to Russia.
The conversation circle sees Brandt as a source and starting point
Among other things, the Epplers point of view, undifferentiated image of the greatest country in the world has driven him, with his friend Robert Antretter (79) of the five election periods for the SPD in the Bundestag sat to establish the 16-person discussion group that will meet every four weeks. First of the speakers were Eppler, the former Russia officer of the government, Gernot Erler and Ex-foreign Minister, Sigmar Gabriel. Among the participants were luminaries such as Ernst-Ulrich von Weizsäcker.
Where are the younger members, for example, Nils Schmid (45), as Eppler and Antretter from Baden-Württemberg, the peace and détente of Willy refer to Brandt as the more influential, the talking circle, in contrast to Brandt as a source and starting point for a Russia policy 2.0. On a technical and objective level, as it is emphasized, should be considered a world-renowned foreign policy up-to-date, which is the special German Situation, geographically as well as politically.
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struggles Against this Background, Nils Schmid’s criticism, the Russia policy is a “Generation,” Antretter as “anticipatory retaliation” counts. Schmid had been informed and invited. But the discussion of social-democratic foreign policy of the future is. In four weeks ‘ time.
