FAZ objection: What comes after the turning point?

Welcome to episode 206 of the FAZ objection podcast.

Shortly after the start of the war of aggression against Ukraine, Germany's foreign and security policy turned 180 degrees: delivery of weapons to a war zone, a special fund for the German armed forces, overachievement of the NATO target.

The international law expert Isabelle Ley is also calling for a turning point in the security policy debate in Germany.

For a long time, the vast majority of Germans made themselves comfortable with the pacifist attitude of “making peace without weapons” and wanted to believe in “change through trade” to the end.

And after the turning point?

Ley thinks: The questions of war and peace must be put on the table and discussed not only between state institutions, but also broadly in society.

Helen Bubrowski

Political correspondent in Berlin.

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The day before the vote on mandatory vaccination in the Bundestag, we also talk about the traffic light’s chaotic corona policy.

Minister of Health Lauterbach is playing backwards on television and no longer wants infected people to go into isolation voluntarily.

And still nobody knows what a hotspot actually is.

Marcus Jung observes the start of the trial against “Mr.

Cum Ex” Hanno Berger.

Raids against neo-Nazis, a European Court of Justice decision on data retention and the start of the EU rule of law proceedings against Hungary also speak for themselves.

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Topics of the program:

02:37 War crimes in Butscha

06:35 Focus on the turning point in German security policy, interview with international law expert Isabelle Ley

25:50 Corona blog

40:48 Raids on neo-Nazis

44:10 Interview with Marcus Jung at the start of the trial against Cum -Ex-lawyer Hanno Berger

1:07:58 ECJ judgment on data retention

1:15:00 Rule of law proceedings against Hungary

1:19:56 The just judgment