Germany. Exposé Friedrich Merz. He talked about Ukraine and Poland

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gives exposé on Wednesday before the Bundestag. He emphasized that Poland would play the same role in German foreign policy as France.

On Wednesday, the new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz appeared for the first time before the Bundestag since he was elected his office last week. Merz said, among others About your last visit to Warsaw, on the first day after swearing in. He emphasized that she was to show that Poland would play in German policy “the same central role” as a neighbor in the West, France.

Merz in exposé about peace in Ukraine

Merz also said that the West could not share in the matter of Ukraine. He spoke against the “peace in fact a dictate” for Ukraine. He assured that Germany, together with partners, including the USA, would strive for just peace. He assessed that 80 years after the end of World War II, freedom in Europe was threatened like never before. He criticized sharply Russia for “breaking all the rules”. Russian soldiers “kill and murder”, also civilians – he noted, adding that the result of the war in Ukraine would decide whether the law would prevail in Europe or whether the tyranny will win. In his opinion, everyone who thinks that the annexation of part of Ukraine will satisfy Putin is wrong.

– The stake of this war is peace architecture on our continent – emphasized the Chancellor. He quoted Helmut Kohl, who said goodbye to the Pope John Paul II In 1993 in Berlin, he said that Europe is a “community of values ​​and culture”. He announced that Germany would take all necessary financial steps to make the German army the strongest conventional army in Europe. He added that the purpose of his government is to make Germany and Europe so strong that it is never necessary to use weapons.

The newly elected German Chancellor of his office on the last day came to Warsaw. Friedrich Merz met with the Prime Minister Donald Tuskand then They performed together at the conference. – With full responsibility I announce a new opening in Polish -German relations, perhaps the most important in the history of the last several years – said Tusk after the meeting.

The block of Christians CDU/CSU won the parliamentary election on February 23. The Bundestag chose Merz on May 6, in the second vote, as the head of the coalition government of the CDU/CSU and social democratic SPD.