NATO’s peace prize Köppel questions the award

Oct 1

Köppel reports Friedrich Merz, Mark Rutte and Dutch prime minister Rob Jetten visiting the German–Netherlands Corps headquarters in Münster on Thursday for a briefing. He then reports NATO’s receipt of the Westphalian Peace Prize and argues it now has an opportunity to act as a peace alliance. He criticizes an alliance he calls belligerent receiving a peace prize, likens it to Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize and characterizes such prizes as political expressions of sympathy among like-minded people. The accusations and comparison remain his commentary. The passage supplies no specific decisions from the Corps visit.

On October 1, before the Westphalia award ceremony, Merz and Rutte visit the 1 German-Netherlands Corps in Münster. phoenix reports discussion of NATO's military situation and explains the multinational command's rapid-reaction and eastern-flank role. Weltwoche's October 2 account adds that Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten accompanied them and that they received a briefing. The retrieved accounts supply no specific new operational decision.