Berlin The opposition leader wanted to land a rhetorical hit. In the debate in the Bundestag on the 100 billion package for the Bundeswehr, Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz (CDU) formulated conditions for the approval of the CDU and CSU to the amendment to the Basic Law for a special fund at the end of March. “You can do feminist foreign policy as far as I’m concerned, including feminist development aid policy – but not with this budget for the Bundeswehr,” Merz thundered in the direction of the traffic light coalition.
Perhaps he did not know that the approach he had despised had been expressly appreciated a few days earlier by a rather conservative top German diplomat.
In the debate on the keynote speech by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on the national security strategy at the Federal Foreign Office (AA), Christoph Heusgen, Angela Merkel’s long-standing foreign policy adviser, complained that the minister had not included feminist foreign policy in her concept.
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