In an interview with the Tagesspiegel, Stoltenberg said that NATO’s door was open.
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Mr. Stoltenberg, during your long tenure you have been to Germany countless times. Did you learn something this time that you didn’t know before?
I always like being in Germany. There were no big surprises, but that’s what I like about Germany: It’s a very stable NATO partner and will remain so. Germany is the strongest economic power in Europe, and if it increases its efforts for NATO, it makes a big difference.
Before Russia’s war of aggression, the Germans were considered extremely reticent, sometimes timid, when it came to tough questions of military power – because of the history of Nazism and World War II. Has the “turning point” changed German society?
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