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German AfD Leader Alice Weidel:

Development aid projects. Why is Germany still paying development aid to China? China is now far more advanced than we are technologically.

Or why are we funding gender toilets in Nigeria? Nobody can explain that.

Or the excessive payments to the United Nations—cut them. Then our payments to the European Union can be reduced, or even eliminated entirely.

Subsidies for clientelism and climate policy—abolish them. That would create enormous fiscal room in the federal budget.

Then we must limit civil servant status to a narrowly defined core of sovereign state functions: the military, the police, finance, and the judiciary. Nothing more is needed.

BIG: Plans for NATO's 2027 summit in Albania are in doubt after the Trump administration reportedly opposed the idea and some allies criticized Albania's low defense spending.

A draft declaration for next week's NATO summit in Türkiye omits any reference to a future meeting in Albania, despite an earlier commitment.

Source: Reuters

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius:

We are in a much better position than a few years ago.

We are ready for crisis. The Bundeswehr is building up.

We are procuring a lot of material, and we are building infrastructure.

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius:

We need more reservists. We want to have obligatory reserve service.

NATO's Rutte:

Even when Russia's war against Ukraine ends, Russia will remain a long-term threat to Euro-Atlantic security.

Germany's Chancellor Merz on defense spending:

We haven't done enough in the past years.

We are doing more now, not just to reach a figure Trump has said, but we are doing it in our own interest because we think it's the right thing to do.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

We would finally and rightfully stand with Israel where God placed its capital. It's not just that you made that decision.

I would say God made that decision 3,800 years ago and we finally got around to acknowledging what had been determined long before the United States of America came along.

NATO's Rutte on Ukraine:

When it comes to the defense of Ukraine, the U.S. is still indispensable.

The flow of key support from the U.S. into Ukraine continues, paid for by Canadians and the Europeans.

I think it's fair.

Netanyahu on Lebanon:

Lebanon is a beautiful country, yet a miserable one.

Its tragedy is that it is so close to Israel.

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Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:

The terms of the Islamabad MoU are crystal clear and public for all to see.

POTUS has committed the U.S. to muzzling its pets in Tel Aviv. If they ignore their master, Iran will school them.

Any threat against our People and Leadership will receive Immediate Powerful Response.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee

For those of you who don't realize it, 700,000 Americans represent an entire congressional district in the United States. That's how many people live in a congressional district.

When members of Congress come, I always say, "Welcome to Israel, the 436th congressional district of the United States."

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German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius:

Nobody has ever said that we want to give up American systems.

That is not the case, and it will not be the case in the future.

We work very closely with the American defense industry, and we want to continue doing so.

There are systems that we simply do not yet have—or do not possess in sufficient capability—that we urgently need over the next five to ten years.

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius:

We know that American production capacities are limited and urgently need to be expanded.

That is why we are very interested in producing certain systems, or parts of systems, here in Germany.

We already have one example with the F-35 fuselage, and there are other projects we want to pursue.

The goal is to achieve greater independence without giving up close cooperation with the Americans.