Overview
- Germany’s foreign minister Johann Wadephul rejected external advice on free speech and social order, said Berlin will review the paper, and reaffirmed the United States as a key NATO ally.
- The National Security Strategy criticizes EU migration policy, alleges censorship and suppression of opposition, calls to end “mass migration,” and pledges to “cultivate the resistance” inside European countries.
- On Russia, the paper emphasizes establishing “strategic stability” and a rapid end to fighting in Ukraine, while analysts note it mentions Russia sparingly compared with past US strategies.
- A leaked call reported by Spiegel described European worries that Washington could cut a Ukraine deal without sufficient safeguards; Russia’s chief negotiator Kirill Dmitrijew mocked Chancellor Friedrich Merz on X in response.
- Recent US-led talks in Moscow by envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff on a ceasefire produced no clear concessions, reinforcing European unease over the trajectory of negotiations.