Merkel’s Would-Be Successors Spar Over Defense, Foreign Policy
- Greens’ Baerbock calls NATO spending target ‘absurd’
- CDU’s Laschet, SPD’s Scholz stand by Nord Stream pipeline
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Chancellor Angela Merkel’s potential successors gave their first hints at how they would lead Germany as the campaign to run Europe’s largest economy begins to take shape.
Annalena Baerbock, the chancellor candidate for Germany’s Greens, called for a more active foreign policy and a balanced transatlantic alliance, drawing a sharper distinction to the status quo than her two rivals.