To turn Germany’s Zeitenwende into effective foreign policy, the country must create new foreign policy structures, Christoph Heusgen, chairman of the Munich Security Conference, tells IPQ in an interview. New ideas will also be needed. Crucially, this includes paying greater attention to the Global South.

What should the EU’s role in the world be? It should aim for confident realism, argues Christoph Heusgen, who will take over the leadership of the Munich Security Conference at the close of this year’s MSC in February.

The composition of the Security Council no longer reflects the real world and threatens its  legitimacy. A permanent German seat is possible, even though it requires stamina and an ample dose of calculated optimism.