The chancellor said Zelensky would need a referendum majority for such a step. To secure that majority, Merz added, Zelensky would have to tell the Ukrainian people: "But I have opened the way to Europe for you."
That is easy for him to say when it is not Germany loosing land to Russia. German and the rest of Europe need to full support Ukraine now or deal with Russian expansionism in the future.
That is easy for him to say when it is not Germany loosing land to Russia. German and the rest of Europe need to full support Ukraine now or deal with Russian expansionism in the future.