Chancellor Friedrich Merz has stated that he would support Germany boycotting next year’s Eurovision Song Contest if Israel is excluded from participation. In an interview with ARD on Sunday, Merz …
Staatsräson= the reason a state exists, basically.
When you look for the english version of the wikipedia article it gives you “national interest”, but i dont think they are quite the same. national interest seems to be thrown around far more flippantly in us politics, while staatsräson is invoked only rarely in german politics. For those who do, it refers to a (mostly) unchanging base of the german state. It is however not a part of the constitution or any german law, and can therefore not be enforced.
Both adenauer (first chancellor of west germany) and merkel named israels safety as part of the staatsräson. After the attack of the 7. october, olaf scholz (chancellor until '24) even called it thestaatsräson.
After the recent limitations of weapon exports to israel (falsely called waffenstopp), current chancellor merz commented that it doesnt make a lot of sense to make another nation your staatsräson.
Please, elaborate. I’m imagining that lots of people (myself included) don’t know a lot about that.
Staatsräson= the reason a state exists, basically.
When you look for the english version of the wikipedia article it gives you “national interest”, but i dont think they are quite the same. national interest seems to be thrown around far more flippantly in us politics, while staatsräson is invoked only rarely in german politics. For those who do, it refers to a (mostly) unchanging base of the german state. It is however not a part of the constitution or any german law, and can therefore not be enforced.
Both adenauer (first chancellor of west germany) and merkel named israels safety as part of the staatsräson. After the attack of the 7. october, olaf scholz (chancellor until '24) even called it
the staatsräson.
After the recent limitations of weapon exports to israel (falsely called waffenstopp), current chancellor merz commented that it doesnt make a lot of sense to make another nation your staatsräson.