Overview
- CDU foreign-policy figure Roderich Kiesewetter proposed that Germany could finance and host elements of a European nuclear umbrella without manufacturing weapons or exercising command.
- Kiesewetter cited a development timeline of roughly five to ten years and framed the idea as contingency planning rather than a call for national nuclear arms.
- SPD leader Rolf Mützenich rejected the notion, arguing that even indirect participation would violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Two-plus-Four Treaty and warning against further nuclear proliferation.
- Kiesewetter referenced a possible Greenland crisis scenario, echoing Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s warning that such a conflict could fracture NATO and call the U.S. nuclear shield for Germany into question.
- Reports note parallel deliberations in Finland, Sweden and Poland and skepticism about relying on France alone, while Germany’s current nuclear sharing with U.S. bombs at Büchel remains unchanged and no government decision has been taken.