Germany boosts defense role at NATO summit
Germany significantly expanded its defense role at the July 2026 NATO summit in Ankara, emerging as the primary European pillar of the alliance. Driven by Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s aggressive military rearmament drive, Berlin has forcefully shed its historical image as a military "free-rider" to take direct command of European conventional defense.
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