Chancellor Friedrich Merz has inaugurated a groundbreaking German brigade in Lithuania that is meant to help protect NATO’s ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has traveled to NATO partner Lithuania to inaugurate a German brigade meant to protect the ...

Germany and its partners are determined to defend all NATO territory, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday during a ...

Friedrich Merz visited Lithuania to inaugurate a German brigade aimed at strengthening NATO's presence and deterring Russian ...

Germany set to defend NATO neighbours with new brigade in Lithuania Germany and its NATO partners are prepared to defend every inch of the alliance's territory, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on ...

Merz also announced plans to make Germany more ... on security matters and hailed a permanent Bundeswehr deployment to Lithuania that is to be combat-ready by 2027.

German Soldiers depart from a German Air Force Airbus A400M at Gaižiūnas Airfield, Lithuania, May 9, 2022. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tamillyah Jo/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) BERLIN (AFP) — ...

Merz also said he would introduce a new volunteer ... The unit, which will be fully operational by 2027, is stationed in Lithuania along NATO's eastern flank. A Boxer armored fighting vehicle ...

Lithuania also confirmed that it closed its ... after accompanying Chancellor Friedrich Merz to Paris earlier in the day. The German top diplomat described France and Poland as Germany's closest ...

Soldiers look at German Air Force helicopters taking off at an airfield in Lithuania where the German ... German Chancellor Friedrich Merz surprised NATO allies on Thursday by signalling plans ...

In February, Merz expressed interest in Germany being protected by France ... While countries such as Denmark, Poland and Lithuania have already expressed interest, others such as Latvia insist that ...

and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has backed the prospect of his country hosting nuclear weapons. Fellow NATO members Poland, Denmark and Lithuania, which have all expressed alarm at the threat ...