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Germany Must Tackle the Crisis of Trust in Europe
Berlin and Paris are squabbling over how to support Ukraine
To mend divisions and make Europe Kyiv’s number one defender, Chancellor Scholz must take on a leadership role.
- Judy Dempsey
- Carnegie
This is not the time for wavering or bickering over Ukraine.
Yet that is what’s happening in Germany—and Europe.
Germany’s Social Democrat Chancellor Olaf Scholz is mired in a dispute with his coalition partners and the main conservative opposition, the Christian Democrats (CDU), about whether or not to send Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
So far, Scholz has not budged from his position.
For him—and the…