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Speicher (dpa / lrs) - The mayor of the collective municipality of Speicher in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm, Manfred Rodens (CDU), is certain that the US troops will stay in Spangdahlem.
Rodens told the radio station SWR on Thursday: “It's not formal yet, but we're very relaxed.
We are 100 percent assuming that the F16 relay will remain in Spangdahlem. "
When asked, Rodens said that it was known that Donald Trump had gone it alone, but that the attitude of the senators and military was different.
The US government had announced that it would put the plans drawn up under US President Donald Trump to withdraw 12,000 American soldiers from Germany on hold.
According to General Tod Wolters, who is responsible for the US armed forces in Europe on Wednesday, the administration of new President Joe Biden has commissioned a thorough review of the project.
Only then will the new Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, make a decision in coordination with the White House.
The Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) and Interior Minister Roger Lewentz (SPD) welcomed the decision of the new US government.
“This meets our expectations and gives us planning security, especially for the Spangdahlem location,” Dreyer announced on Thursday.
It shows that the commitment to maintain the US troops was successful.
Spangdahlem is a showcase location, said Lewentz.
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The Rhineland-Palatinate CDU top candidate for the state elections, Christian Baldauf, announced on Thursday that it would now be important to use the discussion networks for the new US administration.
More than half of the American soldiers stationed in Germany are concentrated in locations in Rhineland-Palatinate.
The SPD parliamentary group leader Alexander Schweitzer announced that the US troops would find excellent framework conditions in the Eifel region.
The German-American friendship in the region had grown over many decades.
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