Germans continue to press for nuclear weapons-free world

On 26 March the German Bundestag passed a resolution (see official English language translation attached below) calling upon the federal Government to chart a clear course towards a nuclear weapons-free world.The resolution is significantbecause it was adopted (and drafted) by all the political parties (with the exception of the Socialists who were not invited to participate).
 
Oliver Meier of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy in Hamburg said, “It is very rare that government and opposition parties jointly act on such political issues and in the parliamentary debate speakers from all the signatory parties highlighted the significance of this cross-party support”.
 
It also noteworthy that the resolution asks the government "during the development of NATO’s new Strategic Concept, to work vigorously within the Alliance and with our US allies for the withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from Germany"[emphasis added], a small but significant addition to the language from the Government's existing commitment. 
 
The resolution also advocates no-first-use by urging "the five recognised nuclear states to renounce, on a binding basis, any use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon states", something that has not been previously been at the centre of the German debate.
 
And in a separate issue, Elke Koller, a German pharmacist who lives close to Büchel air base, where about 20 US nuclear weapons are believed to be deployed, with the support of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), is trying to take the German Government to court over the US nuclear weapons stationed at Büchel. He is arguing among other things that the arrangement violates the German constitution, the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) and the UN Charter. This is apparently the first time that a private person has attempted to sue the Government over its part in the NATO nuclear sharing arrangement. The goal of the law suit is a withdrawal of nuclear weapons from Germany and an end to German involvement in nuclear sharing. The action has created some press interest inside Germany.