The German parliament-imposed limit for German troops in AFG has been reduced by a couple hundred.
This was as far as I know a largely symbolic move, since the actual head count in AFG was already at about that level.
It's being called "Einstieg in den Ausstieg" (~ entry into the exit), and this sounds like typical German slow political movement. Things are regularly being delayed on all major topics, until something really extreme happens and suddenly the Merkel administration moves at unprecedented speed (compare the government's move towards delaying the long since planned exit from nuclear power, followed by the Fukushima accident, followed by the incredibly quick end for nuclear power in Germany).
So basically nothing substantial has happened, but with this administration we could see a sudden pull-out of all troops any time, given a substantial exogenous shock.
This administration is labelled as conservative-liberal, but Chancellor Merkel has repeatedly proved that she has a breaking point. Once this breaking point is reached, she can jump to highly popular arch-green positions. The true driver at the top of both coalition parties doesn't appear to be either (social) conservatism or liberalism (in the original and European meaning of the word), but simply thirst for power. They're remarkably non-ideological these days.
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