SPD Politician: "Common Security Is a Herculean Task"

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The SPD Left Manifesto for Peacekeeping has provoked sharp contradictions, both in its own party and by CDU and Greens. Arno Gottschalk explains the core concern of the paper.

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The campaign "Peaceable instead of capable of first action. For a Europe without medium-range weapons!" expressly welcomes the manifesto "Peace Security in Europe through Defence Capability, Arms Control and Understanding" published on 11 June 2025 from SPD circles as a contribution to party-internal and social debate. The paper is a clear plea for a policy of peaceability, arms control and disarmament. The signatories speak...

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Shortly before his death, Erhard Eppler had gathered the group of companions around him. The trigger for the establishment of the Peace Circle in 2019 was the decision of the then US government under President Donald Trump to terminate the INF Treaty – in English: Washington Treaty on Nuclear Medium-Range Systems – from 1987. Among other things, the production of cruise missiles with a range between 500 and 5,500 kilometres were prohibited. USA …