A spokesman said: “These emails were obtained and published illegally. We are not going to comment on whether specific emails are false.
Since the emails were written, the EU seems to have pushed on with military reforms aided by the backing of of Mr Macron, although deep differences on how so-called “permanent structured co-operation” or PESCO remain.
In November, a working group on Security and Defence Policy of the SPD ‒ Germany’s second-biggest political party ‒ published a plan to create a 28th EU Army.
The force would be directly subordinated to the European Commission and would be under the responsibility of a newly-appointed Commissioner for Defence.
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Yet, another topic is slowly returning to focus: the parliamentary elections and the departure of the chancellor. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) registered 1.188 new deaths within 24 hours - a new record. In addition, 31.849 new infections were reported. But RKI assumes that the actual numbers could be even higher - because in the weeks of holidays around Christmas and New Year, fewer people go to the doctor, fewer samples are taken and fewer laboratory tests are performed, Deutsche Welle writes. So, pandemic remains a top topic in Germany. The current decision of the German government and the province, to extend the lockdown until the end of January, was made in the middle of the first public opinion poll this year, which is regularly conducted by the Infratest Dimap Institute entitled ARD-DeutschlandTREND. However, since the lockdown was expected to continue, the picture of the mood of the citizens is still valid.
Germany unlikely to pursue independent foreign policy and will follow Biden
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In an interview with The Guardian in June, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germans grew up knowing that the U.S. wanted to be a world power. Despite Washington abusing its power against some of its strongest allies, Germany, whose six-month mandate of the EU Presidency will end on December 31, made no efforts to make the European bloc independent of the U.S.
The ruling Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), which Merkel belongs to, had the opportunity to push for European independence and sovereignty away from Washington’s dominance. Instead, Berlin chose to consolidate the EU’s vassal status to the U.S., especially since Joe Biden will be sitting in the White House on January 20.