Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that a new Franco-German friendship treaty was a step toward the creation of a future joint European army. Merkel said the pact aims to build a Franco-German “common military culture” and “contributes to the creation of a European army”.
German prosecutors said Wednesday they had opened a probe against three individuals for negligent homicide in the 2017 crash of a German military helicopter in a UN operation in Mali. “A case on the suspicion of negligent homicide has been opened against three people who are said to have carried ...
