Mario Nawfal
🇩🇪 MERZ SCRAMBLES TO FUND GERMANY’S MILITARY BEFORE NEW PARLIAMENT SLAMS THE BRAKES Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, is racing to lock in more defense spending before liberal and conservative lawmakers—who now hold a blocking minority—can shut it down after March 24. His workaround? Sneaking a vote through the current parliament while it still has the numbers to approve it. Options include a new military fund, expanding the €100 billion ($105 billion) defense budget, or bending borrowing rules. The urgency? Trump is pushing Europe to handle Ukraine’s security, and Germany’s military isn’t exactly in top shape. Source: Bloomberg
Mario Nawfal
🚨🇩🇪MERZ: WE WILL NEVER CLOSE THE BORDER "Although this was claimed at times during the election campaign, none of us wants close the border."
