Overview

• The strategy paper, drafted by Britta Haßelmann and Katharina Dröge in late June, was published on June 28 and will guide the parliamentary group’s July retreat.
• It calls for a renewed emphasis on concrete daily challenges such as malfunctioning school facilities, unreliable rural buses, daycare closures, and inadequate pensions.
• The authors draw lessons from the traffic-light coalition period and the Greens’ 11.6 percent result in the latest federal election to diagnose weaknesses.
• The document criticizes the party’s previous defense policy messaging for being too narrowly focused on individual weapons systems.
• It acknowledges that the heating law suffered from poor public explanation and urges more thorough preparation and discussion with citizens.