Germany creates centralised council to improve security planning

By Andreas Rinke

Berlin, August 27 (Reuters)-German government agreed to create a National Security Council that survived the country’s medium and long-term security needs to better plan.

The new organ, which replaced the Federal Security Council and the Security Cabinet, was a central promise of Chancellor Friedrich Merz and thought that Germany’s post -Cold War years focused on security policy during relative peace.

“This is too late,” said Stefan Mair, President of the SWP Thinking Office. “Value will be less than to ensure that different ministries see the security status in the same way.”

Germany, Russia’s 2022 full -scale Ukrainian invasion, half of the gas tanks are empty and forced to remove the entire energy infrastructure from Russia.

The invasion led to the search for soul in German policy circles, and many criticized previous governments for allowing the country’s armed forces to shrink since the collapse of the Soviet Union 1991.

The new Council, which will be a permanent staff in Merz’s Riverside office, aims to respond to emergency threats and plan to plan new risks on the horizon.

Merz will be chaired by serving as the Deputy Minister of Finance. Foreign, internal, justice, economy, defense, development and digitalization ministers will also be permanent members.

Their numbers may be temporarily increased by representatives of German states, allied countries or scientific experts.

In 2010, Germany was the last of many countries that established a central security committee about the US National Security Council model among the oldest imitators in 2010.

(Writing by Thomas Escitt; editing by Sharon Singleton)