Berlin, May 15, 2025 (AFP) - 'Paradigm shift': Germany says to meet Trump's NATO spending target

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Germany under new Chancellor Friedrich Merz surprised NATO allies on Thursday by signalling plans to massively boost defence spending to five percent of GDP as demanded by US President Donald Trump. The pledge, made by the foreign minister at NATO talks in Turkey, came a day after conservative Merz, in office for just over a week, said his government planned to build up "the strongest conventional army in Europe". Security expert Roderich Kiesew......

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