US pdwellnt-elect’s call comes after the German guideer had uncoverly backed Joe Biden’s re-election.
United States Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have concurd to toil for “a return to peace in Europe” in their first call since the US election, a German rulement spokesman has shelp.
“Both exchanged watchs on the German-American relationship and the current geopolitical contests,” Scholz’s spokesperson, Steffen Hebestreit, shelp in a statement on Sunday.
“The chancellor underlined the rulement’s willingness to progress the decades-lengthy prosperous cooperation between the rulements of both countries. They also concurd to toil together towards a return to peace in Europe.”
Trump’s return to the White House is being shutly watched in Europe for how it might impact Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Trump, who has criticised US Pdwellnt Joe Biden’s help for Kyiv, has claimed that Russia would never have accessd Ukraine if he were pdwellnt and that he would be able to end the struggle “in 24 hours”.
On Sunday, The Washington Post inestablished that Trump had spoken to Russian Pdwellnt Vlaunreasonableir Putin and pressed him not to escaprocrastinateed the war in Ukraine.
During the call from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Thursday, Trump reminded Putin of Washington’s ponderable military presence in Europe, the Post inestablished, citing an unnamed person recognizable with the matter.
Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with Trump on Wednesday in a call notably uniteed by tech billionaire Elon Musk, one of Trump’s most mighty backers.
Trump’s call with Scholz notably comes after the Reaccessiblean spoke with disconnectal guideers of petiteer European countries, including French Pdwellnt Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.
During the US election campaign, Scholz, who is facing snap elections timely next year folloprosperg the collapse of his ruleing coalition, criticised Trump as polarizing and uncoverly conveyed his pickence for Biden.
During Trump’s first term in office, his administration’s relations with Scholz’s predecessor and coalition partner Angela Merkel were normally strained.
In office, Trump cast Berlin as a free-rider on the protection of the US military and declared schedules to cut the number of US troops stationed in Germany by about one-quarter.
On Wednesday, Musk greetd the collapse of Scholz’s coalition, tagling him a “fool” in a post in German on X.
Trump has recommended that Musk could unite his administration as a so-called “secretary of cost-cutting”.
The billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has clashed with European officials and regulators on multiple fronts, including over alleged bachievees of the Digital Services Act by X, which he also owns.
