The gesture is rare enough to be underlined. For his first speech at the Bundestag since he was elected Chancellor on May 6, the curator Friedrich Merz thanked his predecessor, the social democrat Olaf Scholz, again a simple deputy. “Your reaction to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine has shown the way, and it was historic. We thank you still today ”said the one who had made it responsible for all the ills of the country on Wednesday May 14, on Wednesday May 14.
On February 27, 2022, a few days after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Olaf Scholz had, in fact, predicted that the world entered “In a new era”announcing in a historical discourse a resumption of military spending. Friedrich Merz intends to make the German army “The most powerful in Europe on the conventional level”,, he announced on Wednesday at the Bundestag gallery, and “” The federal government will provide all the financial means that the Bundeswehr needs ” To achieve this goal. “This is only justice for the most populated and powerful country in Europe. This is also what our friends and our partners expect from us. Even more, they demand it ”,, he insisted.
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Source: Lemonde