Next week's NATO summit will be all about placating Donald Trump
FOUR MONTHS ago Friedrich Merz, freshly triumphant in Germany's election, mused aloud that the largest, longest-lasting and most successful alliance in modern history might soon evaporate. 'I am very curious to see how we are heading towards the NATO summit at the end of June,' he remarked. 'Whether we will still be talking about NATO in its current form or whether we will have to establish an independent European defence capability much more quickly.'
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