Merz Says Alliance of the West Doesn’t Exist Anymore

 

“What we once called the normative West no longer exists in this form,” Merz said at an event for employers in Berlin on Tuesday. 

“At best, it is still a geographical designation, but no longer a normative bond that holds us together.”

The new US national security strategy published last week has made it clear that Vice President JD Vance’s speech lambasting Europe in February at the Munich Security Conference was not a slip-up, but the beginning of a US strategic realignment, Merz said.

Bloomberg 9 December 2025

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-09/merz-says-parts-of-us-security-strategy-unacceptable-for-europe

Publicisten Gabor Steingart, före detta chefredaktör vid tyska Handelsblatt, skriver om ett nytt ”team Europa” och ser framför sig konturerna av ett Europas förenta stater som inte låter sig malas sönder av stormakterna.

Ett aktivt Tyskland behövs för att Europas röst ska höras i världen