Merkel added that Europeans “should stand united and never be intimidated when Trump imposes extra tariffs on the bloc, however we must always retaliate with tariffs of our personal.”
“I am not saying we must always break off relations with the U.S., however we should negotiate. Even the U.S. can not survive alone,” she stated, including: “I see a problematic growth. When Vice President [JD] Vance says, ‘we’re companions, and we are going to solely help you should you agree with our idea of freedom,’ which suggests no guidelines and no controls, that’s certainly a menace to our democracy.”
Merkel and Trump all the time had a rocky relationship. In her memoir, she wrote of Trump: “He judged all the pieces from the attitude of the property entrepreneur he had been earlier than politics. Every property might solely be allotted as soon as. If he didn’t get it, another person did. That was additionally how he seemed on the world.”
“For him, all nations have been in competitors with one another, by which the success of 1 was the failure of the opposite; he didn’t consider that the prosperity of all may very well be elevated by means of co-operation.”
‘Lady cries at a summit’
The previous German chancellor’s go to to Athens got here simply days forward of the tenth anniversary of Greece’s 2015 bailout referendum.
She described her phone dialog with former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, by which she realized that Greece would maintain a referendum on whether or not to just accept the phrases of the bailout from its worldwide collectors, a transfer that would have ended with Greece leaving the eurozone.
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