Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz signed a treaty yesterday aimed at tightening defence ties between the two:
The treaty expands on the 2024 defence pact between London and Berlin, in which two of Ukraine’s biggest European supporters undertook to work more closely with one another in tackling the growing threat from Russia. The agreement promises they will “assist one another, including by military means,” in the event of “an armed attack on the other”. Since both countries are NATO members, how this differs from the alliance’s mutual defence pact is unclear.