The fear of Russian revenge can retreat decades of work of European governments to erode individual responsibility in favor of a more collectivist model, and the public is now told more and more that it is ready to take control for their own survival.
The German Ministry of Interior led by the Minister of the Social-left caregiver, Nancy Faeser, is intervening to introduce the civil defense into the School Study Plan, a report by the Handelsblatt Newspaper states. In Germany, education is the responsibility of individual states, but the federal government wants to promote this issue and prepare the educational material to be distributed to the states, it is said.
A spokesman for the Ministry cited in the report says about the decision to introduce children to children: “Given recent developments in the security situation, a greater focus on civil defense must be focused, even in school education … [it is] It is important that citizens have emergency supplies at home to deal with several emergency situations, so that they can help themselves, their families and those who surround them, and even save lives in an emergency. ”
The perceived threat of Russia that invades its neighbors or heat with NATO breaking salsaly is cited as the reason for this change in politics, with a better preparation for natural disasters as floods named as a bonus of the pact.
The German government that moves to a more prepared State is only the last manifestation of this type of broader European political concern about war. In recent months, Sweden Sweds issued an updated version of its Survival Manual of the Cold War Age, the United Kingdom has told citizens that they have a radio with batteries and a flashlight at home, and NATO has the bottled water storage in green.
Last month, the European Commission appealed to the people of the continent to take similar precautions, and this communication was signed specifically by the German government as reporting their own thinking. The European Crisis Management Commissioner Hadja Lahbib announced this change with a Video of elegant social networksSaying that the preparation must be a new way of life for Europe, and the recommended list of daily transport items such as bottled water, a pocket and cash knife.
While the government counts the public, they must take measures to guarantee their own survival, contracting that society without effective is not resistant, and even encouraging people to bring a pocket knife, everything that is like the figure of the liberations. Europeans are ultra taxes, the social contract that justifies the winners who lose a considerable portion of their income in exchange for a state of welfare in harvest, but now tacitly admits to be fragile and unable to take a step forward in a crisis.
Some of the messages contradict very directly the narratives of the long -standing government. The Official Council of the European Union to carry a pocket razor daily, “one must have” would cause horror abject in London, for example, where the government is working hard to eliminate the transport of knives completely in strict and hard penateels and the hard crime of Salte.
The change to a society without cash caused government policy throughout Europe to last the era of the closing of the Coronavirus and strongly objected by the right activists concerned about the loss of freedom is also a partner, Payon’s relocation is the best.
Commissioner Lahbib, for example, says that it always carries “some cash. In the midst of a crisis, the cash is the king, and his credit card could simply be a piece of plastic.”
As for Germany, the launch of the preparation in schools has reasonably broad cross support, with an opposition from the hard left, for example, that argues that such movements are intended for military society for the future war. In other cases, the media adjacent to the leadership of the euro have accused the “extreme right” or trying to undermine such initiatives.
Establishment the conservative spokesman for Defense of the CDU Rodich Kieswetter said Handelsblatt of the plan that found “absolutely necessary that emergency situations are practiced, because students are particularly vulnerable and particularly affected in an emergency.”
He said that Germany is much less prepared for emergencies than other European states that border Russia. Finland, which never cools his system of the twentieth century of military service and almost universal recruitment for adolescents and has a wide civil defense preparation was summoned as an individual to follow.
Kieswetter said: “Compared to our Nordic and Oriental neighbors, Germany has very little resistance, and our crisis preparation structures are vice versa,” saying that Germany almost does not have state stacks of stocks or resilient.
Germany dedicated himself to an enthusiast of the sale of the cold war or the old bunker sites, the country no longer knows how many exist, and could use again in an emergency. He is currently starting a ‘bunker plan’ to examine the country and rediscover this information, inspired by the experience of the Ukrainian war.
Thus, Germany is massively more prepared than some countries, such as the United Kingdom, for example, which suspended all civil defense preparation in the 1960s about the logic that spending finite defense money was more effective.
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