In Karlsruhe, a blue bus parks in one of the large squares in the city center. The door decorated with the inscription “Security Strategy” [stratégie en matière de sécurité] opens, the German Foreign Minister gets out of the vehicle and walks towards the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is expected by the inhabitants of the city to participate in an experience of participatory democracy.
For several weeks, Annalena Baerbock has been traveling the country to discuss the government’s “traffic light” strategy. [sociaux-démocrates, Verts, libéraux] abroad, explains the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. At each meeting place, fifty people chosen at random are brought to dialogue with her on questions of energy policy, armaments and defence. The participants must then formulate proposals, which will go back to the ministry that she heads.
The initiative was launched by the political family of the minist