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Under the overflight of a Gendarmerie helicopter, the assault column of the First Marine Infantry Regiment advances during the Balerit joint and combined military exercise at Angouleme in the Charente department in the Nouvelle Aquitaine region of western France, on March 26, 2025. (Photo by Romuald Goudeau / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP) (Photo by ROMUALD GOUDEAU/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)
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The head of the Bundestag Armed Forces Committee said in a recent report that Germany's armed forces “has too little of everything."
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Carol Ye from Canada checks her phone as she waits to fly to Toronto via Heathrow International Airport, after a fire at an electrical substation wiped out the power at Heathrow International Airport, at Fiumicino Airport near Rome, Italy, March 21, 2025. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
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Friedrich Merz (C-L), leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), speaks during a session of the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) on March 18, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. German lawmakers will vote on a massive spending boost for defence and infrastructure proposed by chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz amid concern over the United States' commitment to Europe's security. The hastily drawn plans represent a radical departure for a country traditionally reluctant to take on large amounts of debt or to spend heavily on the military, given the horrors of its Nazi past. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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17 March 2025, Bavaria, Ingolstadt: The slogan "Audi - Vorsprung durch Technik" can be seen on the glass fa'ade of the Audi headquarters. The car manufacturer Audi is cutting a total of 7,500 jobs in Germany by the end of 2029. The company and the Works Council have reached an agreement on this, which includes the waiver of compulsory redundancies, as announced by both sides. (to dpa: "Audi cuts 7,500 jobs") Photo by: Daniel L'b/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
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An airport employee sits in front of an empty check-in counter at Terminal 2 of the Munich Airport, in Munich, Germany, on March 10, 2025.
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CNN was invited to spend the day with Germany’s Armed Forces as they trained with 4 other NATO nations at an undisclosed location in Central Germany.
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Leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz gestures as he addresses delegates at the conference of the CDU party in North Rhine-Westphalia, in Essen, western Germany, on December 14, 2024.
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Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, CDU, talks to the media during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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