Friedrich Merz today gave a foreign policy speech and said this on a possible EU defense fund: He is "sceptical" that "with money alone" problems could be solved and that before we could consider "any new contribution- or debt-based funds", European and national defense procurement...
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So: A new German govt could be open to joint defence financing if embedded in joint policies and in particular joint procurement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbUGELDFaWQ