Before cellphone name with Trump: Merz criticizes the US authorities for “absurd considerations” on Germany and AfD | EUROtoday

The new Chancellor Friedrich Merz desires to make calls to US President Donald Trump this Thursday. “So far we have not known each other personally,” stated Merz on ZDF. A gathering of the 2 will happen on the NATO summit on the finish of June on the newest, “maybe earlier,” emphasised the CDU chairman. “We will talk to each other openly.”

He is brazenly represented “our position”, and that is additionally the European place. “As Europeans, we have something to offer, we are even greater than the United States of America.” The variety of customers within the EU is larger than within the USA and Canada. “We can do something, we are closed, largely,” continued Merz. “That will be my message to the American government.”

Merz criticized the votes from elements of the US authorities, which had spoken out within the Bundestag election marketing campaign for the AfD and eventually criticized the classification of the occasion as right-wing extremist by the constitutional safety. It is “absurd considerations of the Federal Republic of Germany,” stated Merz. “So far I have always had the feeling that they can clearly distinguish them between extremist parties and parties in the political center.”

“I did not interfere in the American election campaign and unilaterally took part for one or the other.” He subsequently encourages the American authorities to let home politics in Germany be home politics and to largely keep out of the occasion political issues.