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Politicians and safety consultants see better burdens dealing with Germany after a potential victory for Donald Trump within the US presidential election. “Regardless of whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins the US election: We Europeans will have to take more responsibility for ourselves,” says CDU chief Friedrich Merz to the “Handelsblatt”.

America will not be the pressure of order that it was for 70 years, says the candidate for chancellor. “So we Europeans must, firstly, ensure our security much more than before, and secondly, improve our competitiveness very quickly.”

Christoph Heusgen, head of the Munich Security Conferencecalls for extra dedication from Germany specifically: “As the largest economy in the European Union, Germany should also take a leading role in defense issues,” he tells the “Handelsblatt”.

Former Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) believes it was above all a mistake to not have made better efforts to enhance relations with France. “The biggest failure of German politics is to have allowed German-French relations to be worse than ever before in post-war history,” mentioned the chairman of the Altantik-Brücke to the “Handelsblatt”.