Meeting in Munich over the weekend, officials on both sides said they wanted to continue to work together. In the world of geopolitics all eyes were on Southern Germany over the weekend where the Munich Security Conference (MSC) served as the latest make or break moment for Germany-US relations. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered the event's opening speech in which he acknowledged that a rift has opened up with the US, and urged trans-Atlantic partners to repair and revive trust.
Let me begin with the uncomfortable truth: A rift, a deep divide has opened between Europe and the United States, Merz said. Vice President JD Vance said this a year ago here in Munich. He was right in his description, Merz said, as he called for a new transatlantic partnership. Referencing Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, Merz also warned that Europe did not need to move in the same political direction as the US, saying the culture war of the MAGA movement is not ours.
A new nationwide opinion poll finds a majority of Germans feel threatened by the actions of the US, a country that helped liberate and rebuild Germany and one that has been its most important ally for more than 80 years Germany's interior minister has promised a new, aggressive approach to cybersecurity, vowing to 'strike back' at bad actors The president of Germany's Bundesbank said his institution defends itself against 5,000 attempted cyberattacks every minute