Merz’s EU Frustration Is Getting More and More Obvious

Friedrich Merz, knee-to-knee in the Oval Office with Donald Trump, sat mute as the US president threw verbal darts at Spain, one of Germany’s European Union allies, complaining about its failure to help in the US-Israeli attack on Iran.

The German chancellor later joined the pile-on, echoing the president’s rant that Spain was also behind on the new NATO goal for defense spending. “Spain has to comply with that,” Merz said.