Germany’s chancellor olaf scholz’s is set to unveil the country’s first national security strategy aimed to provide an overview of the country’s foreign policy and ensure a cohesive cross-ministry approach to security.
The idea gained a new urgency following russia’s invasion of ukraine which exposed the poor state of the german military, its over-reliance on russia for energy and insufficient protection of critical infrastructure such as gas pipelines.
Germany has had policy documents in the past addressing security but scholz’s three-way coalition agreed it wanted a more comprehensive strategy in its pact in november 2021
Recall that scholz had described the ukraine war, as a turn of era, in a landmark speech days after the invasion, which required germany to prioritise security more and spend more on defence.
