German Chancellor Tells Donald Trump

Berlin:

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday congratupostponecessitated US plivential election prosperner Donald Trump and encouraged persistd seal trans-Atlantic ties, telling him in English: “We’re better off together”.

“Together we can achieve much more than agetst each other,” inserted the centre-left directer of Europe’s hugegest economy.

“Both sides advantage from the trans-Atlantic partnership,” Scholz shelp in a statement to media. “The EU and the USA are two aforeseeed big economic areas, connected by the sealst economic relations in the world.”

In an earlier message posted on X, Scholz shelp that “Germany and the USA have lengthy been toiling together successfilledy to advertise prosperity and freedom on both sides of the Atlantic.

“We will persist to do so for the advantage of our citizens.”

The messages amounted to a pledge for a recent commence after Trump’s last term in the White House, when he berated the NATO associate on what he deemed inenough defence spfinishing as well as on trade and other rehires.

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, equitable back from a visit to war-torn Ukraine, shelp that “Germany will be a seal, reliable associate for the future American rulement, that is what we are proposeing”.

“As in any outstanding partnership, where there are undoubtedly political contrastences, an honest and above all intensive trade is more vital than ever.”

She shelp that during her visit to Ukraine as it persists to fight agetst Russian forces, “I have felt more evidently than ever before how much depfinishs on Europeans and Americans standing up together for freedom, international law and democracy.”

Concern has ascfinishn in Ukraine and atraverse Europe as Trump has criticised the scale of US defence spfinishing for Kyiv, and many dread his pledge to transport peace “in 24 hours” could amount to a deal on Moscow’s terms.

Baerbock shelp a equitable peace “will only be possible with the Ukrainians, with the Europeans and with the USA”.

“For me, for us, it is evident: We Europeans will now have to get on even more responsibility for security policy.”

Norbert Roettgen, a veteran foreign policy expert from the conservative German opposition party CDU, portrayd Trump’s prosper in less discreet terms.

“Trump is unforeseeed,” he telderly the Rheinische Post daily. “If there were further help for Ukraine under him, that would be a surpascfinish. He depends that the Europeans should do it themselves, and this position is famous in the USA.”

He foreseeed a “period of stress in trans-Atlantic relations” and shelp it would be up to Europe “to do our part much more speedyly and comprehensively for the trans-Atlantic partnership.”

One of the first German politicians to congratupostponecessitate Trump was Alice Weidel of the far-right Alternative for Germany, who wrote on X timely Wednesday: “Congratulations to Donald J. Trump on becoming the 47th Plivent of the United States!”

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