German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin last week and the two spoke about how Germany plans to help Kyiv ramp up its war against Russia by pumping Ukraine with €5 billion in new weapons while forming a joint effort to produce long-range weapons.
Even while the Israeli government ramps up its massacres in Gaza—nearly 16 months since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Tel Aviv is “plausibly” committing genocide—Berlin has done nothing to distance itself from Israel, and continues to “celebrate” their “unshakeable friendship,” according to a report in WSWS.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Lithuania last week to celebrate the deployment of his forces inside the country, stating that the brigade represents Berlin’s commitment to securing the Baltic states because their security “is also our security.”
Countries across Europe have seen a seismic shift in support from establishment conservative parties to an upstart populist movement that is focused on fixing economic and societal issues at home while tapping into a festering anger toward the establishment.
Germany is putting its (borrowed) money where its mouth is.
Germany’s Bundesbank lost €19.2 billion last year, its first negative year since 1979.
Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor in waiting, wasted no time to start his full-court press to come up with new funding for Berlin to beef up its military and wants to rush the approval before the new government can challenge him.
The Eurozone’s economy stagnated in 2024’s final three months as GDPs in France, Germany, and Ireland contracted.
The German economy contracted by 0.2 percent last year after shrinking by 0.3 percent in 2023, the Federal Statistics Office (FSO) said, while inflation in December was at 2.8 percent.
After months of labor strife and fruitless discussions between the company and Germany’s biggest labor union, Volkswagen’s factory workers walked off the job on 2 December.