Germany has agreed to purchase US Tomahawk cruise missiles and station them in Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz told Germany's parliament, or Bundestag, on Thursday morning.
Merz has just returned from the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, also attended by US President Donald Trump and other senior US government officials.
What did Merz tell parliament after the NATO summit?
Merz was speaking in a broader address to the Bundestag touting his government's record.
As well as a string of domestic and economic priorities — like planned income tax and pension reforms working their way through parliament — he listed a final goal as moving toward "a future where our country is not susceptible to blackmail, but rather can confidently meet every threat posed to our free way of life using its own strength."
