Overview
- On ARD’s “Caren Miosga,” CDU foreign affairs figure Norbert Röttgen called the U.S. National Security Strategy a dramatic shift and “the end of an era” for transatlantic relations.
- Participants urged Europe to assume greater defense responsibility, with proposals discussed that include lifting Germany’s military budget toward €150 billion.
- Nico Lange argued Europe must deter Moscow with credible capacity and declared the long‑standing habit of relying on Washington “the Daddy method” to be over.
- Annett Meiritz highlighted tight links between Trump’s MAGA movement and European right‑wing parties, warning of attempts to shape EU domestic politics on migration and culture‑war issues.
- The broadcast referenced ongoing talks in Berlin involving the U.S., Ukraine and European states on ending the war, as panelists pressed to use roughly €210 billion in frozen Russian assets in Europe to finance Ukrainian defense.