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Merz says Netanyahu ‘can visit’ Germany despite ICC warrant
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Leader and top candidate for chancellor of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz gestures as he addresses a press conference following a CDU party leadership meeting at the party's headquarters, the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus, in Berlin, on February 24, 2025, one day after the German general elections. Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz has vowed to rule Europe's largest economy by returning to his Christian Democrat party's conservative roots, ease restraints on business and crack down on irregular immigration. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP)
Friedrich Merz, who is expected to be Germany’s next chancellor after his conservative CDU/CSU bloc won national elections, says that he would make sure Benjamin Netanyahu “can visit” Germany despite an arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister issued by the International Criminal Court.
“In the event that he plans to visit Germany, I have also promised myself that we will find a way to ensure that he can visit Germany and leave again without being arrested,” Merz tells a press conference in Berlin.
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