Germany must provide greater protection for its civilian population, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Friday during a visit to Finland’s civil protection faciltiies. This must be tackled quickly because civil defence, or the protection of the population “is always the flip side of a military threat and defence capability,” Pistorius said in Helsinki at a meeting with Finnish Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen. He then visited the Merihaka civil defence facility in the Finnish capital. The facility is used as a sports centre in peacetime, but it has bunker facilities for 900,000 people. In…