{"id":93716,"date":"2026-02-14T13:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T08:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=93716"},"modified":"2026-02-14T13:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T08:40:46","slug":"merz-says-in-talks-with-macron-on-european-nuclear-deterrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/merz-says-in-talks-with-macron-on-european-nuclear-deterrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz says in talks with Macron on European nuclear deterrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUNICH: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday that he was in talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about nuclear deterrence, as worries grow about US security commitments to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have held confidential talks with the French president about European nuclear deterrence,\u201d Merz said at the opening of the Munich Security Conference.<\/p>\n<p>He previously said he was open to France extending its nuclear deterrent in Europe. Germany, which cannot acquire its own atomic weapons due to treaty obligations, has traditionally relied on the US nuclear umbrella via its participation in NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Macron said his country was engaging in dialogue with a few European leaders, including Merz, \u201cin order to see how we can articulate our national doctrine \u2014 which is guaranteed and controlled by the constitution \u2014 with special cooperation, common exercises and common security interests with some key countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is exactly what we are doing for the first time in history with Germany,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUNICH: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday that he was in talks with French President Emmanuel Macron about nuclear deterrence, as worries grow about US security commitments to Europe. \u201cI have held confidential talks with the French president about European nuclear deterrence,\u201d Merz said at the opening of the Munich Security Conference. He previously &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":93730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93731,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93716\/revisions\/93731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}