Merkel urged to make ‘Germany a NUCLEAR SUPERPOWER for Europe’ over US-exit fears
GERMANY should become a nuclear superpower and spearhead European efforts to acquire weapons, according to leading politicians.
By KATIE MANSFIELD
Express.co.uk
Fri, Feb 10, 2017
Berlin is under pressure to obtain nuclear weapons for the EU over fears the United States will leave NATO.
Head of Poland’s ruling party Jaroslaw Kaczynski told German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he would “welcome an EU nuclear superpower” shortly before meeting Angela Merkel in Warsaw.
It is thought he may have pressed the German Chancellor on the issue during the visit.
Mr Kaczynski said Europe should become a superpower with a nuclear arsenal to rival Russia.
Roderich Kiesewetter, a senior MP from Angela Merkel’s CDU party and foreign policy spokesman, has also called for Germany to take a leading role in the EU becoming a nuclear superpower.
Mr Kiesewetter said he wants Germany to fund efforts for a “nuclear shield” for the bloc by helping Europe’s only nuclear powers, the UK and France, to boost their arsenals.
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