The decision of the Federal Parliament not to allow a discussion on the war in Ukraine after his speech today provoked strong reactions from the opposition, but also from the media. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by teleconference, but to impose a direct return to the set agenda, with a discussion on compulsory vaccination against Covid-19.
“I want to thank President Zelensky for his outspoken words to the Bundestag today. We see Russia continuing its fierce war every day, with terrible losses. “We are committed to doing everything we can to give diplomacy a chance and end the war,” Chancellor Olaf Solz said in a Twitter post shortly after the Ukrainian president’s speech to the Bundestag. Mr Zelensky had previously blamed Germany for its oligarchy and over-indulgence in the economy, and closed his speech by calling on the German chancellor to “break down this wall” that Russia is building “between freedom and non-freedom”.
After the intervention of Volodymyr Zelensky, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU / CSU) Friedrich Mertz called for a debate on Ukraine, which the bureau refused. “This is a good time for a first assessment of Germany’s actions in the conflict in Ukraine,” said Mr Mertz. “Today was the most indecent moment of the Bundestag that I have personally experienced,” wrote CDU foreign policy chief Norbert Rγκtgen, with many German media outlets posting in English “sorry for the negative image”.
“I am ashamed of my country,” he wrote in a comment to BILD The newspaper’s correspondent in Kyiv, Paul Rontsheimer, noted that the Bundestag’s stance showed a lack of respect for the president of a country at war.
“I’m ashamed of my country, that after such an emotional speech, after a desperate call for help from an entire country, we move seriously to the German agenda and discuss the coronavirus. It is representative of how our politicians listened to what was happening in Ukraine “Eight years ago, but they did not react,” the journalist wrote, referring to the chairwoman of today’s sitting, Bundestag Vice President Catherine Goering-Eckart, who, after the speech of the Ukrainian president, read some wishes for the birthday of deputies.
“Birthday wishes are on the agenda of the German Parliament. In Ukraine on the agenda is death. “I hope Volodymyr Zelensky had closed his connection”, writes the BILD envoy.
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