STEFANIE DAZIO

Reporter

Dazio covers Northern Europe from Berlin for The Associated Press. She previously covered crime and criminal justice from Los Angeles.
U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft F-35 performs aerobatic maneuvers on the third day of the Aero India 2025, a biennial event, at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)
Europe and Canada are eyeing alternatives to American-made fighter jets. Here’s why
 
Friedrich Merz, CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag and CDU federal chairman, makes a statement after the parliamentary group meeting in the Bundestag, Berlin, Friday, March 14, 2025. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)
German parties agree deal to loosen debt limit, expand defense spending as Europe called to do more
 
Lufthansa planes are seen at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, on Monday, July 17, 2023. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP, File)
Berlin airport cancels flights ahead of Monday’s strike. 10 other airports could see disruptions
 
A woman walks with her dogs on a beach in Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Greenland’s prime minister says island isn’t for sale as Trump seeks control ‘one way or the other’
 
A passer by climbs up a ladder of the Bridegroom's Oak which has a famous knothole that has been used as a mailbox since 1892, in Dodau forest, near Eutin, northern Germany, Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Timber over Tinder: Bridegroom’s Oak in a German forest has connected lovers for over a century
 
Flowers are laid in the city center of Mannheim, Germany, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, a day after a driver rammed a car into a crowd. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Suspect in deadly German car-ramming gives no information on motive and is ordered held in custody
 
Police officers stand next to a damaged vehicle in the city center of Mannheim, Germany, Monday March 3, 2025, following an incident in which one person was killed and others injured when a car rammed into a crowd, German police said. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)
A driver rams a car into crowd in Germany’s Mannheim, leaving 2 dead and 11 injured
 
Supporters of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rally outside of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
European leaders pledge to stand by Ukraine after confrontational Oval Office meeting with Trump
 
An election poster stands in the city of Arnis, Germany, where only one person voted for the right AfD party at the German election, on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
Just 1 voter backed AfD in Germany’s smallest town
 
The tv figure "Bernd das Brot" on stage during the Grimme awards in Marl, Germany, Saturday, April 3, 2004. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
Meet Bernd das Brot, a depressed German loaf of bread that’s spent 25 years as a TV cult classic
 
Police and ambulances near the scene where people were killed and injured in an attack at a festival in Solingen, western Germany, the German dpa news agency reported, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (Gianni Gattus/dpa via AP, File)
Suspected Islamic extremist charged in deadly German knife attack that left 3 dead and 10 wounded
 
Friedrich Merz, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party, reacts to the speech of Markus Soeder, leader of CSU and Minister-President of Bavaria, at the party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Merz prioritizes Ukraine and US, vows to tackle migration and economy after German election win
 
An election poster of the far-right anti-immigrant party Alternative For Germany party AfD, with with the slogan reading "It's time for a country that is still a home country", is displayed in a street, in Magdeburg, Germany, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
Migrant groups say racist attacks increase in German city after deadly Christmas market violence
 
United States Vice-President JD Vance addresses the audience during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
The art of the deal? Zelenskyy says a Ukraine-Russia agreement must come through Trump negotiations
 
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, attends a meeting with United States Vice-President JD Vance on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Zelenskyy to Vance: Ukraine wants ‘security guarantees’ as Trump seeks to end Ukraine-Russia war
 
FILE -In this photo taken Nov. 17, 2011, the U.S. and Danish flags fly at the Novozymes new enzyme plant under construction near Blair, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
A joke petition seeks to help Denmark buy California as Trump eyes Greenland
 
People gather at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a shooting on the outskirts of Orebro, Sweden, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
One of the victims of Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting called his fiancée to say he loved her
 
People take part in a vigil near the scene of a shooting at an adult education center on the outskirts of Orebro, Sweden, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Swedish police say mass shooter was connected to school where he opened fire
 
People gather at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a shooting on the outskirts of Orebro, Sweden, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Sweden’s worst mass shooting leaves at least 11 dead, including the gunman
 
Police at the scene of an incident at Risbergska School, in Örebro, Sweden, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (Kicki Nilsson/TT News Agency via AP)
At least 10 killed at adult education center in what officials say is Sweden’s worst mass shooting
 
This still image taken from video and provided by Airline Videos Live shows the Gonzaga University men's basketball team plane, back left, taxiing and being told to stop on the runway at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, in Los Angeles. The plane operated by Key Lime Air was ordered by air traffic controllers to stop as a Delta aircraft, above, took off. No one was injured. (Airline Videos Live via AP)
A jet carrying the Gonzaga men’s basketball team ordered to stop to avoid collision at LAX
 
A fire burns a house in the Mountain fire, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in Camarillo, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
California will soon require insurers to increase home coverage in wildfire-prone areas
 
People stand at the end of the Manhattan Beach Pier and watch high surf pound the pylons on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024 in Manhattan Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
California residents on edge as high surf and flooding threats persist on Christmas Eve
 
A building from a wharf collapse floats in the ocean Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, in Santa Cruz, Calif. (Shmuel Thaler/The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
Pier collapse throws 3 into the sea as major storm pounds California’s coast
 
A glass of eggnog, which is prepared 11 months in advance, is shown at Scoma's Restaurant in San Francisco on Tuesday, Dec.10, 2024. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
It’s eggnog season. The boozy beverage dates back to medieval England but remains a holiday hit
 
Ryan Kobayashi, center, holds a picture of his missing daughter Hannah Kobayashi outside Crypto.com Arena, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
Hannah Kobayashi, missing Hawaii woman whose disappearance prompted a massive search, is found safe
 
California Geological Survey engineering geologists John Oswald, right, and Spencer Watkins assess damage to a road following a 7.0 earthquake Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, in Humboldt County, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
In California’s ‘earthquake country,’ a 7.0 temblor prompts confusion and a tsunami warning
 
Drinks and other food items are toppled on the floor inside Hoby's Market and Deli after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Scotia, Calif. (Dylan McNeill/The Times-Standard via AP)
7.0 earthquake off Northern California prompts brief tsunami warning
 
Sheriff's deputies walks past a playground outside Feather River Adventist School after a shooting Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, in Oroville, Calif. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)
Gunman who shot 2 kindergartners at a California school wrote about attack targeting children
 
FILE - A jogger runs in front of the Phillips 66 refinery, July 16, 2014, in the Wilmington area of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
Oil company Phillips 66 faces federal charges related to alleged Clean Water Act violations
 
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