Europe needs to become fluent in 'power politics,' Merz says

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2026-01-29

Berlin (dpa) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said Europe needs to find a way to become a dominant force again to assert itself in a newly emerging world order dominated by a few power players. Europeans will only be able to implement their ideas "if we ourselves learn the language of power politics," Merz told German lawmakers as he was giving a foreign policy address in the Bundestag. In recent decades, Europe has been the political force......

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