‘Stronger together’

Merz to discuss sharing nuclear weapons

Kate Connolly

Germany’s chancellor-to-be, Friedrich Merz, said he will reach out to France and Britain to discuss the sharing of nuclear weapons, but cautioned that such a move could not be a replacement for the US’s existing protective shield over Europe. “The sharing of nuclear weapons is an issue we need to talk about,” Merz said in a wide-ranging interview last Sunday with the broadcaster Deutschlandfunk (DLF). “We have to be stronger together in nuclear deterrence.” Merz, an erstwhile passionate transatlanticist who has spoken out in recent weeks on Donald Trump and Europe’s need to be “independent”, said he hoped the US nuclear shield would remain in place, and that a European shield should be viewed as a “complement” to it. He said: “We should talk with both countries [France and Britain]…

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Guardian Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 14 March 2025

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