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On October 4, Friedrich Merz met Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv as Russian strikes damaged the Northern Bridge and hit other sites. Germany and Ukraine signed a €1.3bn deal, including about €1bn for weapons and energy support.
Germany was set to provide funding to repair damage to Ukraine’s energy sector.
Russian attacks damaged Kyiv’s Northern Bridge and injured two people as German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited. Authorities restricted or suspended traffic on five of Kyiv’s six road bridges. Strikes by Russia and Ukraine killed at least five people, and Russia attacked a civilian ship near Odesa.
One person was killed in the Russian drone attacks.
State-election losses weakened Merz’s CDU as the AfD advanced in Saxony-Anhalt and the Left Party won in Berlin. Merz denounced extremism after an AfD lawmaker became Saxony-Anhalt’s parliament president and said he intended to help combat it.
The Alternative for Germany was polling at 36% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron urged the European Commission to adopt tougher trade defenses, including supplier diversification and faster exclusion of a country from the EU single market in exceptional cases. The appeal was clearly aimed at China.
The European Union estimated its trade deficit with China in 2025 at this amount.
More than 100 demonstrations are planned across Germany.
AllegedThe tax reductions are expected to lower gasoline prices by €0.17 per litre.