Friedrich-merz Articles

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December 20, 2025

EU’s Ukraine loan may have been Plan B, but don’t underestimate its significance to the bloc

This €90bn agreement won out over a plan to use frozen Russian assets, but has been hailed a ‘huge deal for the EU’The EU’s failure to agree a...

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November 19, 2025

Poland rail sabotage blasts ‘act of state-sponsored terror’ by Russia, says Polish foreign minister – Europe live

Radosław Sikorski said Poland would respond to the weekend’s incidents ‘not only diplomatically’, without giving more detailsPoland’s foreign...

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September 14, 2025

Far-right AfD’s vote triples in elections in German bellwether state

Party takes 16.5% of the vote in North Rhine-Westphalia, behind governing CDU and Social DemocratsGermany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland...

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August 17, 2025

European leaders including Starmer to join Zelenskyy in Washington for meeting with Trump

Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and others will aim to push back against ceding of Ukraine territory in ‘peace plan’

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August 10, 2025

Zelenskyy welcomes European leaders’ insistence on Ukraine role at peace talks

Ukrainian leader ‘fully supports’ statement before Trump-Putin summit that Kyiv must be part of ‘path to peace’The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr...

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August 05, 2025

Pension age debate threatens to splinter Germany’s fragile coalition

Merz walks fine line as ‘lazy Germans’ debate sparks protest and economy minister calls to raise retirement age to 70The fact that ageing Germany’s...

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