March 17, 2025 (EIRNS)—The question is now posed in Germany: Is a coup d’état underway? This arises from the multitude of political maneuvers in motion regarding the economy, military and fundamental constitutional and parliamentary practice. Professor of State Law Dietrich Murswiek from the University of Tübingen asks the question this week. There is the plan to change the constitutional debt brake against extra-budgetary state borrowings; the demand to fund militarization with hundreds of billions of euros, already a speculative bubble atrocity; the plan of Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and Greens to have another constitutional change by asserting “climate neutrality” as a new basic norm.
Professor Murswiek is interviewed in the conservative journal Tichy’s Insight. The net effect of this constitutional change would be that anyone who is skeptical about the goal of climate neutrality—for example, by claiming that it would harm the economy—would potentially become an enemy of the constitution, an enemy of the state.
Parties and politicians who campaign against red-green climate policy could and would be declared enemies of the constitution and the state, becoming targets of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV). Targetted people may lose their jobs, for example, especially if they work in the state sector, for example, as teachers.
Murswiek points to the example of Romania, where the Constitutional Court first banned speech from politician Diana Sosoaca (leader of the SOS party), which was done with reference to articles she had published. The ban decree was issued without her having been convicted or even tried beforehand, without her being given a chance to defend herself. The Constitutional Court made its decision without any due process in the matter. The right-wing candidate Calin Georgescu was also excluded completely from the elections, also with reference to several accusations that were scarcely provable. And the first round of the elections, in which Georgescu was the winner, was cancelled.
The suspicion creeps in that the requirement of “climate neutrality” in the Basic Law could ultimately be instrumentalized for such party-political purposes: Anyone who argues against green policies becomes an enemy of the Constitution, and must expect trouble. This could be very helpful in the next elections if, as expected, the old parties receive even less support than this year. The judiciary could then extend a saving hand to get rid of all those parties and politicians that oppose the official narrative, Murswiek warns.