The United States has approved the sale of Tomahawk cruise missiles to Germany, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Thursday, despite previous doubts that a planned deployment of the missiles would go ahead. "On the sidelines of the NATO meeting in Ankara, we agreed with the American government that American Tomahawk missiles will be purchased by us and stationed in Germany," Merz told MPs in a statement to parliament. The fate of the Tomahawks had been unclear after President Donald Trump announced in May that he would reduce US military presence in Germany, which had been seen as a cancellation of a plan under the previous administration to deploy a US battalion with long-range Tomahawk missiles to Germany. Berlin has pushed for the move as a powerful deterrent against Russia while Europeans develop such weapons of their own.
