les r\u00e9alit\u00e9s<\/a> de la politique de l’\u00e9quipe pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente par rapport \u00e0 l’Irak, alors que Platzeck semble profiter d’\u00eatre situ\u00e9 \u00e0 gauche dans le parti, hors de l’orbite Schr\u00f6der. Quant \u00e0 Merkel, sa popularit\u00e9 est un cadeau d\u00e9licat \u00e0 manipuler : s’il se confirme que cette popularit\u00e9 est fond\u00e9e sur sa position vis-\u00e0-vis de Guantanamo, c’est-\u00e0-dire la perception qu’on a d’une certaine fermet\u00e9 \u00e0 l’encontre des Am\u00e9ricains, cela lui interdit la tr\u00e8s grande sollicitude pro-am\u00e9ricaine que ses amis anglo-saxons attendent d’elle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tCi-apr\u00e8s, un rappel de ce qui pourrait devenir l’affaire Steinmeier, d’apr\u00e8s nos sources internes: \u00ab It is the most coveted role in German politics, but for Frank-Walter Steinmeier being foreign minister is rapidly turning into a nightmare. Seen as a rising star of the SPD when he took over from Joschka Fischer two months ago, the white-haired, 49-year-old confidant of Gerhard Schroeder has been buffeted by scandal since taking office. Steinmeier has weathered the storm so far. A furore over the alleged CIA abduction and imprisonment of German citizen Khaled el-Masri blew up only two weeks after Steinmeier moved into the Foreign Ministry building at 1 Werderscher Markt street in central Berlin. The Schroeder government was accused of hushing up the kidnapping and as a key player in the old administration Steinmeier was Schroeder’s chief of staff the new foreign minister found himself hit by a media and opposition backlash. He dodged that bullet, but then found himself engulfed in another scandal. Media reports alleged earlier this month that two German agents who were in Iraq during the 2003 U.S. invasion gathered information on bombing targets for Washington and acted as scouts for an air raid intended to kill Saddam Hussein. Steinmeier, who had responsibility for German intelligence at the time, has denied the reports, which if confirmed would discredit the Schroeder government by exposing its anti-Iraq war stance as a sham. He is now leading a battle to prevent a parliamentary inquiry into the affair, which he has denounced as a product of scandal mongering.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb The troubles for Steinmeier may not end there. Over the weekend, German magazine Focus reported that ransom money allegedly paid by the government last month to win the freedom of Susanne Osthoff, a German citizen kidnapped in Iraq, was found on Osthoff by German officials after her release. Steinmeier, the magazine said, had ordered absolute secrecy on the ransom discovery. If confirmed, the report would be a double embarrassment for him first because Berlin wants to avoid admitting it pays ransoms and second because it would suggest Osthoff was in cahoots with her abductors and duped the government. The story is full of inconsistencies that must be cleared up, demanded leading conservative Wolfgang Bosbach in Die Welt. A poll for Der Spiegel magazine on Sunday showed that only 37 percent of Germans would like to see Steinmeier play an important role in German politics in the future. That compares to an 85 percent rating Angela Merkel, and a 72 percent score for Matthias Platzeck, the head of Steinmeier’s SPD.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Le comble ironique de la situation en Allemagne, c’est qu’on y voit un ministre menac\u00e9 pour ses mauvaises fr\u00e9quentations avec les Am\u00e9ricains, et que ce ministre est un SPD tr\u00e8s proche de Schr\u00f6der, et que ces mauvaises fr\u00e9quentations remontent \u00e0 la p\u00e9riode 2002-2005 o\u00f9 l’on disait de l’Allemagne qu’elle \u00e9tait devenue l’ennemie jur\u00e9e de Washington.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2748,4633,3171,5011],"class_list":["post-67206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-allemagne","tag-merkel","tag-schroder","tag-steinmeier"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}