Conservative German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is traveling to the Turku in southwestern Finland in order to meet with the prime ministers of the Nordic countries.<\/p>\n
Finland shares a 1,340-kilometer border with Russia and has warned of Moscow’s military build-up.<\/p>\n
Health Minister Nina Warken is calling for Germany to impose tighter restrictions on the online prescription of medicinal cannabis.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Greens parliamentary leader Katharina Dr\u00f6ge called a plan by Merz’s government to abolish a 3-year accelerated path to German citizenship “senseless.”<\/p>\n
Follow this blog for a roundup of top news stories from Germany on Monday, May 26:<\/p>\n
Welcome to our coverage<\/p>\n
Guten Tag and welcome to our coverage of developments in Germany on Monday, May 26, 2025.<\/p>\n
Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to travel to Finland to meet with the leaders of the Nordic countries as Berlin seeks to take on a leadership role within the NATO military alliance.<\/p>\n
Health Minister Nina Warken is calling for restrictions on the online prescription of medical marijuana amid increaing cannabis use in the country.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the opposition Green Party has critized Merz’s plans to abolish the 3-year accelerated path to citizenship for “exceptionally well-integrated” migrants.<\/p>\n
This blog will provide you the latest news, analysis, multimedia content and DW on-the-ground reporting in regards to events in Germany. Stay tuned for more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conservative German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is traveling to the Turku in southwestern Finland in order to meet with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,769,1945,15439,58512,1824,58513,58514,58510,58511],"class_list":{"0":"post-132816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-finland","11":"tag-friedrich-merz","12":"tag-german-chancellor","13":"tag-german-citizenship","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-medicinal-cannabis","16":"tag-nina-warken","17":"tag-nordic-countries","18":"tag-southwestern-finland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114573280847381144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}