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Chancellor Merz calls for strengthening Europe: Less bureaucracy, more military force!

2025-10-17 09:12:22Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

On the eve of the EU summit next week, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for Europe to more energetically fulfill its role as a "power for peace."

" Europe must use its opportunities more decisively and more unanimously and put its power into action to shape a better world ," Merz demanded in the government statement in the Bundestag regarding the summit.

The Gaza peace agreement showed that political action makes a difference.

At the same time, Europe must become stronger militarily, the Chancellor emphasized.

Merz: Russian assets to be used for the Ukrainian army. The heads of state and government of the EU member states will meet in Brussels next week on Thursday and Friday (October 23 - October 24, 2025) for their autumn summit. It is customary for government statements to be issued on the eve of such meetings. A central project of the Chancellor at this meeting will be the demand to use Russian assets frozen in the wave of sanctions. Merz also raised this issue at the Copenhagen summit in early October and now expects concrete decisions in Brussels.

It intends for the Russian Central Bank's credit assets worth 140 billion euros to be used to arm Ukraine to strengthen its defensive war against an aggressive Russia.

Action plan against hybrid threats from Russia
The German government will respond to threats from Russia with an expanded action plan to protect against hybrid threats. The National Security Council will discuss this in a few days at its constituent meeting, the Chancellor said. He accused Russia of destabilizing Germany and Europe - with sabotage and assassinations, with cyberattacks and deliberate disinformation.

"End the regulatory overreach"
Merz will also insist at the EU summit on progress towards strengthening the competitiveness of the European Union economy. "Europe will become more productive if it changes fundamentally," he said. This means: "End the regulatory overreach, faster procedures, open markets, more innovation, more concrete actions instead of hesitation."

The leader of the Christian Democratic Party called on the EU Commission to present further concrete proposals for reducing bureaucracy. With the steps taken so far, which envisage relieving businesses of a burden of around eight million euros, the Commission is on the right track. “But this is not enough,” said Merz. “We need a systematic verification of EU agreements.”

Merz also stressed that this does not contradict the clear statement that the climate protection targets by 2045 and the intermediate targets by 2040 must be achieved. The Chancellor emphasized that there should be no doubt about this. This is an organic part of environmental and economic policy. "And this is achieved not with regulations or bans, but with open technologies, with innovation, with competitiveness, especially in technologies that make environmental protection possible."/DW


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