US EditionGermany Creates Centralised Council to Improve Security Planning
Germany's National Security Council merges two bodies to improve crisis response and strategic foresight, including key ministers and experts, enhancing coordination across security sectors.
- On August 27, Germany's cabinet agreed to create a standing National Security Council chaired by Chancellor Friedrich Merz with permanent staff in Merz's riverside office and the finance minister as deputy.
- Momentum for a centralised security body dates to 2023 alongside the National Security Strategy, after Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion left Germany's gas stores half empty and prompted policy soul-searching.
- The NSC's membership will include the chancellor plus nine ministers, merging the Federal Security Council and Security Cabinet into a single body coordinated by Jacob Schrot.
- A key task for the council is strategic foresight to identify threats, with Merz saying the NSC will handle long-term planning, and officials calling it the "new nucleus of Germany's security architecture," as Stefan Mair said `This is long overdue`.
- Merz's Christian Democrats pushed the change through after a manifesto promise, overcoming past coalition disputes between ex-Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats and the Greens that derailed plans.
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