Germany’s incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz shares many of French President Emmanuel Macron’s talents, but also many of his faults.

In the new geopolitical situation, German public opinion is changing fast, leaving old military and fiscal taboos behind. Germans could even be convinced of EU debt issuance to finance a European defense build-up, a DGAP-Forsa poll shows.

Europe’s days as the happy junior partner of the US empire are gone. The time has come to build a sovereign Europe.

Extending France’s nuclear umbrella to the whole of Europe is an old idea which time has come.