General Discussion

Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned on Thursday that Russia threatened security in Europe as he visited Lithuania to mark the official formation of Germany’s first permanent overseas military unit since the second world war, aimed at bolstering Nato’s eastern flank. The decision to build up a 5,000-strong armoured brigade in Lithuania over the coming years came in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. “There is a threat to us all from Russia,” Merz told reporters in Vilnius ...