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Key FactsMerz's Chancellorship: Challenges and International Diplomacy
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- Friedrich Merz was elected as the new Chancellor and participated in memorial events for the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Berlin.
- During a visit to Poland, Merz stated that Germany considers the question of World War reparations legally settled but offered to discuss compensation projects.
- Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticized the new German migration policy, warning that Poland may implement its own border controls if Germany tightens them.
- Merz plans to intensify Franco-German cooperation and hold discussions on European security issues and nuclear deterrence.
Germany will let into its territory whoever it wants. Poland will only let into its territory whoever it accepts.— Donald Tusk criticizes the planned migration policy of the new federal government during the inaugural visit of Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
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