The leaders of the German government’s two parliamentary groups, Jens Spahn (CDU/CSU) and Matthias Miersch (SPD), arrived in Ukraine this morning for a joint visit to show solidarity. In Kiev, they had discussions on Germany’s continued support for Ukraine.
The background to this action concerns an intent to display joint agreement on backing Ukraine, if little agreement on other things. Recall that the prior government coalition was characterized by so many frictions among the three “traffic light” coalition partners—Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats—that they made Germany ungovernable. The only policy that all three agreed on was the support for Ukraine against Russia.
The same paralysis can be assessed for the present two-party government of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats. Haunted by many differing positions on migration and return of mandatory military draft [and social cuts—ed.], both parties pull on the same string in support for Ukraine—including the accompanying re-armament of Germany.
