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Trans-Atlantic tensions in focus as annual Munich security gathering opens
Chancellor Merz urged US and Europe to rebuild fractured transatlantic trust and highlighted NATO membership as a mutual advantage amid increased defense spending by European allies.
- On Friday at the Munich Security Conference, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned the rules-based order `no longer exists` and urged Europeans to accept sacrifice as `our freedom is not guaranteed`.
- Shifts in U.S. policy, including tariff and treaty changes, prompted strained transatlantic trust as U.S. commitments to NATO have been called into question and its leadership claim challenged.
- Countering last year's U.S. tone, the German chancellor said `the battle of cultures of MAGA in the US is not ours` and emphasized that freedom of speech ends where it attacks human dignity, supporting climate agreements and the WHO.
- Merz urged Europe to invest in deterrence, warning `even the United States will not be powerful enough to go it alone`, and revealed `confidential talks` on a joint European nuclear deterrent.
- Some 50 world leaders are expected at the conference, where Russia‑Ukraine, tensions with China, and a potential Iran‑US nuclear deal are on the agenda, as Rubio said `the old world is gone`.
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Europe calls for reset in US ties at security meet
MUNICH, Germany — European leaders called Friday for a reset in relations with the United States as they met at a top security conference where US President Donald Trump's potshots at traditional transatlantic ties loomed large.
Germany's Merz urges US to 'repair and revive' trust
World leaders and ministers are gathering in Germany to discuss global security. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz acknowledged the deepening gap between Europe and the US, saying the international rules-based order "no longer exists."
Munich. Friedrich Merz, Federal Chancellor of Germany, called on the United States and Europe to “repair and revive transatlantic confidence together”, during his speech at the Munich Security Conference, while French President Emmanuel Macron argued that the world should “take an example” from Europe, not “critique it or caricature it”, and proposed to turn the region into a “political power”.
The Conference on Security is continuing today in Munich. Rubio's intervention awaited. Yesterday Merz's warning: "A gap has opened between the US and the EU; the Maga culture is not ours; the post-war order is no longer there and the Atlantic Alliance must be re-founded," said the German Chancellor.
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