Ukraine war: Europe's new security era, faced with Russian threat

„ ‚It’s tragic it took a war like this, but now we Germans have woken up with a bang!‘ insists Marie Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, who heads the German parliament’s Defence Committee. 

She assured me Berlin was now ready to take responsibility.

The West looked at Germany with suspicion after two world wars, she observed, but that was decades ago, and - to be honest, she said - Germany was pretty comfortable enjoying being a Nato and EU member, without having to invest in its own army. 

‚Germany’s allies have waited too long for us to do our bit.‘“

Artikel von Katya Adler