🇩🇪 Germany – Thursday, 17 September 2026
**Pistorius meets Guterres as Berlin vote nears**
After the Hegseth pact reported yesterday, Pistorius met UN chief Guterres in New York to discuss peacekeeping and Germany's UNIFIL role in Lebanon, before heading to Fort Worth for the German Air Force's first F-35A handover. A weekend INSA poll found 78% of Germans, including many CDU voters, no longer see Merz as fit to be chancellor, days before the September 20 Berlin state election.
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Merz’s fate in the balance as second eastern German state goes to the polls
Merz’s fate in the balance as second eastern German state goes to the polls
🇩🇪 Germany – Wednesday, 16 September 2026
**Pistorius and Hegseth sign defense cooperation pact**
The two ministers signed a declaration of intent in Washington covering joint development, production, licensing and maintenance of defense goods, supply-chain resilience and eased technology-transfer rules. It names the Patriot missile production in Germany and Germany's preliminary Tomahawk purchase, agreed at NATO's Ankara summit in July, as flagship projects. Pistorius travels on to New York to meet Guterres.
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/id_101435476/pistorius-und-hegseth-unterzeichnen-ruestungsvereinbarung.html
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