Friedrich Merz to meet Xi Jinping in Beijing as China overtakes US as country’s leading export destination
China has overtaken the US as Germany’s top trading partner, figures have shown, as the chanc…
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Why Germany’s conservatives can’t get over Angela Merkel ⊕
One sentence in Friedrich Merz's address to the CDU party congress gives a big clue.
7 days ago
France and Germany agreed to build the fighter jet of the future. Now they can’t agree who is in charge ○
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FCAS, which also involves Spain, is imploding at a high-stakes moment for Europe, as threat rises from Russia
France and Germany’s plan to build a fighter jet of the future, planned to come with a swa…
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The Guardian view on Merz and Meloni: an emerging Berlin-Rome axis is threatening the EU’s green deal ⊕
The deregulation agenda being pushed by Germany’s chancellor and Italy’s prime minister is economically and ethically flawed
When the European Union launched its green deal in 2019, putting into law t…
9 days ago
Germany eyes social media ban for kids ○
Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he has "a lot of sympathy" for a proposal to prohibit access for under-14s.
Without US military support, we need a European defence union. Here’s what that looks like | Paul Taylor ⊕⊕
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The fledgling ‘coalition of the willing’ assembled for Ukraine could form the basis for an urgent European security response
After a year of Donald Trump’s second term and two Munich Security Confere…
Lagarde to leave ECB before the end of 8-year term ⊕
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Central banker wants to give Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz the chance to pick her successor
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Why Marco Rubio’s ‘reassuring’ speech to Europe was nothing of the kind | Nathalie Tocci ⊖⊖
After JD Vance’s frontal attack in Munich last year, the US secretary of state’s tone seemed almost soothing. That’s just a new Maga trap
The good news from the Munich Security Conference is that ther…
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US ‘not powerful enough to go it alone’, Merz tells Munich conference ○
German chancellor rebuts idea of American unilateralism and says ‘democracies have partners and allies’
America acting alone has reached the limits of its power and may have already lost its role as g…
Germany’s Merz blasts ‘lost’ US leadership and says global order ‘no longer exists’ ○
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Chancellor Friedrich Merz confirms discussions underway on a European nuclear deterrent, at speech in Munich.