Berlin, March 18, 2025 (AFP) - Germany's Merz says defence package 'step towards new European defence community'

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2025-03-18

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that a major spending boost planned for the armed forces was "nothing less than the first major step towards a new European defence community". He told parliament that the grouping would also include "countries that are not members of the European Union but are very interested in building this common European defence together with us such as... Great Britain and Norway". bur/fz/sr/js ...

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