L’Allemagne conna\u00eet aujourd’hui de d\u00e9licats probl\u00e8mes en mati\u00e8re de politique ext\u00e9rieure, mais plut\u00f4t d’une fa\u00e7on exemplaire de la position occidentale en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral que sp\u00e9cifiquement. Apr\u00e8s l’Afghanistan<\/a>, voyons les rapports avec la Russie, au moment o\u00f9, aujourd’hui, Merkel rencontre Poutine. Les m\u00eames caract\u00e8res apparaissent: une paralysie compl\u00e8te entre des exigences contradictoires, avec, notamment, le m\u00e9lange des n\u00e9cessit\u00e9s strat\u00e9giques et l’arrogance occidentale en mati\u00e8re de politique moralisatrice (droits de l’homme, d\u00e9mocratie et tout le toutim).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tUn article de l’International Herald Tribune<\/em> nous fait aujourd’hui<\/a> un tableau consternant de la chose.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abAs Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Vladimir Putin of Russia hold official talks Monday in this southern city, analysts say that Berlin’s attempts to forge a new policy toward Russia to bind it to Europe is close to tatters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMerkel, unwilling to pursue the same pro-Russian policies as her predecessor, Gerhard Schr\u00f6der, has adopted a more confrontational stance toward the Russian leadership. She put a brake on the new Ostpolitik, much to the anger of the German business community but to the relief of several of the new EU member states from Eastern Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbGermany used to be an active mediator between Russia and the West, said Alexander Rahr, director of Russian policy at the Germany Council on Foreign Relations, who has very close contacts with the Kremlin. Merkel is now just a passive player, and this means there is no European strategy toward Russia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbGermany has lost this role partly because of Merkel’s own outlook: she was raised in Communist East Germany and has made the defense of human rights the core of her foreign policy. In her weekly video-podcast, she acknowledged Sunday there were problems between Berlin and Moscow over the rule of law and foreign policy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbSuch a tone was never struck by Schr\u00f6der, a Social Democrat. He made business the center of his political relationship with Putin, with whom he developed a close friendship. But Merkel, a Christian Democrat, has repeatedly challenged Putin’s record on human rights and press freedom, even if it means offending the business community.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThere is a new setting now, said Peter Schulze-Lemgow, a political science professor and Russian expert at G\u00f6ttingen University. On the political level, the continuity between the German and Russia leaders has really changed. There is a qualitative change of style in the relationship. If you ask if Ostpolitik is dead, let’s say we are entering a new reality.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa situation est donc r\u00e9sum\u00e9e par une addition de contradictions. L’Allemagne doit entretenir et d\u00e9velopper une relation strat\u00e9gique avec la Russie, qui doit inspirer une politique europ\u00e9enne \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard. En m\u00eame temps, elle doit plaire aux pays europ\u00e9ens de l’Est, entr\u00e9s r\u00e9cemment dans l’UE et dont on conna\u00eet l’hostilit\u00e9 visc\u00e9rale \u00e0 l’encontre de la Russie; en m\u00eame temps, elle doit r\u00e9p\u00e9ter son cat\u00e9chisme sur les droits de l’homme et la d\u00e9mocratie, qui irrite les Russes et les conduit \u00e0 l’intransigeance. Le r\u00e9sultat est le discr\u00e9dit allemand \u00e0 la fois comme partenaire de la Russie et meneur europ\u00e9en des rapports de l’EU avec la Russie. Ce jugement r\u00e9sume la chose : Merkel est d\u00e9sormais un acteur passif et cela signifie qu’il n’y a pas de strat\u00e9gie europ\u00e9enne pour la Russie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’Allemagne n’est pas une sacrifi\u00e9e, un bouc-\u00e9missaire ou une aveugle dans cette question des rapports avec la Russie. Elle ne fait que dupliquer une politique occidentale vis-\u00e0-vis de la Russie, qui semble devenue un st\u00e9r\u00e9otype que plus personne n’est capable de mettre en cause. On l’a vu encore \u00e0 la fin de la semaine derni\u00e8re avec la r\u00e9union<\/a> USA-Russie sur les anti-missiles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 15 octobre 2007 \u00e0 12H06<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" L’Allemagne conna\u00eet aujourd’hui de d\u00e9licats probl\u00e8mes en mati\u00e8re de politique ext\u00e9rieure, mais plut\u00f4t d’une fa\u00e7on exemplaire de la position occidentale en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral que sp\u00e9cifiquement. Apr\u00e8s l’Afghanistan, voyons les rapports avec la Russie, au moment o\u00f9, aujourd’hui, Merkel rencontre Poutine. 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