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Defense Secretary Klaudia Tanner doesn’t think it’s a good time to discuss neutrality. The army should get more money this year – also for heavy weapons.
Of Wlfried Rombold and Georg Renner | 6:54 p.m., March 12, 2022
20 years ago, Frau Minister Wolfgang Schüssel, then chancellor and head of the ÖVP, said “the old templates – Lipizzaner, Mozartkugeln or neutrality – no longer apply in the complex reality of the 21st century”. Now, despite the war in the neighborhood, everyone is swearing by neutrality again. What has changed in these 20 years?
Claudia Tanner: Neutrality is enshrined in the constitution. Even if it has changed as a result of joining the EU. On the occasion of the Ukraine crisis, all of us, from the Federal President down, have stated that we were, are and will remain neutral – militarily, but not politically if international law IS violated.