German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on the campaign trail he was open to the idea \u2014 a major about-face for Germany, as Berlin had repeatedly refused similar offers in past decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Under France\u2019s nuclear doctrine, there is a \u201cEuropean dimension\u201d to the country\u2019s so-called vital interests \u2014 which the weapons are designed to protect. However, what exactly that European dimension entails, and in which circumstances France might deploy its nuclear capacity beyond its own borders, is left purposefully vague.<\/p>\n
Unlike the United Kingdom, France is not a member of NATO\u2019s nuclear planning group.<\/p>\n
In Friday\u2019s conclusions, France and Germany also pledged to implement decisions taken at this year\u2019s NATO summit, meaning boosting defense spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2030 and increasing weapons arsenals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Paris and Berlin announced a new Franco-German initiative to develop a European early-warning system: \u201cSpace-based missile early warning system based on ODIN\u2019s EYE project and a network of ground-based\u00a0radars.\u201d It\u2019s dubbed JEWEL and open to other European countries.<\/p>\n
France and Germany also used Friday\u2019s council to push for a stronger EU role in Ukraine \u2014 and in Europe\u2019s defense more broadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on the campaign trail he was open to the idea \u2014 a major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2594,473,32,34,2000,299,36,1945,1824,2598,2821,32949,8041,332,2663,413,657,49,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-439373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-defense","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-friedrich-merz","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-missiles","18":"tag-nato","19":"tag-nato-summit","20":"tag-nuclear-weapons","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-sanctions","23":"tag-space","24":"tag-ukraine","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115238630876696836","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439373","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=439373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}