Nuclear deterrence: Merz guidelines out Germany having nuclear weapons | EUROtoday

In the talk a few European nuclear deterrent, Chancellor Friedrich Merz dominated out the acquisition of German nuclear weapons. “I don’t want Germany to think about independent nuclear armament,” he informed the political podcast “Machtwechsel”. He referred to present treaties during which Germany has dedicated itself to refraining from nuclear armament: the Two Plus Four Treaty for German reunification in 1990 and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1970.

German fighter jets with French nuclear weapons attainable

However, Merz can think about making Bundeswehr plane out there for the attainable use of French or British atomic bombs. Tornado fighter jets are already stationed on the Büchel air base within the Eifel for the usage of US nuclear weapons. “Theoretically, it would be possible to apply this to the British and French nuclear weapons as well,” mentioned Merz.

Merz is holding talks with Macron

The Chancellor mentioned on the Munich Security Conference that he was holding talks with French President Emmanuel Macron a few frequent European deterrent. Macron had already provided Germany and different EU companions such talks in 2020 throughout US President Donald Trump’s first time period in workplace. However, it met with simply as little response from then Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) because it did from her successor Olaf Scholz (SPD), earlier than Merz (CDU) accepted the provide.

NATO’s nuclear deterrent is at the moment primarily based totally on US nuclear weapons, of which round 100 are estimated to nonetheless be stationed in Europe, a few of them in Büchel.