But the poll conducted by the “Korber” Foundation and its results published on Tuesday showed that 58 percent of Germans do not want it to take over. Germany A leadership role in the event of the United States’ international withdrawal.
When participants were asked about the most competent German politicians in foreign policy, 28 percent of Germans chose the conservative opposition candidate for chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Party, Friedrich Merz. The Minister of Economy, who belongs to the Green Party, received Robert Habeckreceived the support of 18 percent of Germans, while the current Chancellor of the Social Democratic Party, Olaf Schulz, received 15 percent.
The poll was conducted by the Verian Institute to measure opinion indicators last September as part of the annual survey conducted by the Korber Foundation entitled “Berlin Pulse.” An additional poll was conducted on the seventh and eighth of this November, after the US presidential elections and the collapse of the German ruling coalition.
In a poll last September, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius’s proposal to increase defense spending to between 3% and 3.5% of the total was approved. gross domestic product 50 percent of Germans supported it, and another 15 percent felt that this percentage was very low.
At the same time, 65 percent of Germans opposed their country assuming a leading military role in Europe (71 percent a year ago). Regarding greater involvement in confronting international crises in general, 46 percent of Germans supported this, the highest percentage since the start of the annual survey in 2017, while 44 percent still opposed it.
