Germany has agreed with the U.S. government to acquire Tomahawk cruise missiles and station them on German territory, Chancellor Friedrich Merz told lawmakers in Berlin on Thursday, Reuters reports.
Merz said that he had met with Washington on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara to seal the deal, adding that the summit had exceeded all of his expectations.
"In doing so, we are closing a critical strategic gap in our defence, while simultaneously working to develop our own European systems and station them in Europe," he said.
The fate of the Tomahawks had been unclear after President Donald Trump announced in May that he would reduce U.S. military presence in Germany, which had been seen as a cancellation of a plan under the previous administration to deploy a U.S. 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.
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