“Germany and the United States have a long and successful history of working together to promote prosperity and freedom on both sides of the Atlantic. “We will continue to do so for the good of our fellow citizens.”wanted to remember the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, on the social network X, congratulating Donald Trump in German and then in English, on Wednesday morning, November 6..
After Ukraine, Germany is undoubtedly the European country that has the most to lose from the victory of the New York billionaire in the American presidential elections. Economically, militarily and strategically, Europe’s main economic power depends on the United States more than any other State on the Old Continent. However, the prospect of a Donald Trump return seemed to leave the country as if it had failed to prepare for it.
Donald Trump’s first term in the White House, marked by a clear deterioration in bilateral relations between both countries, left an almost traumatic memory in Germany. In 2017, the leading European economic power was, along with China and North Korea, one of the favorite targets of the White House occupant, who sometimes seemed to consider that his German origins gave him a particular experience, but he did not reach Germany. as president.
Both in his meetings and in his speeches, he criticized Germany for its defense spending, insufficient in his opinion, for its lack of commitment within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but also for its energy options that make it too dependent on Russia, for its trade surplus against the United States, as well as for its immigration policy, accusing Angela Merkel of having ” ruin “ his country by massively hosting refugees from the Middle East at war in 2015-2016.
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Eight years later, the situation in Berlin does not seem to be improving. Donald Trump has never shown any particular attachment to the transatlantic relationship on which Germany depends so much, and which seems to have difficulty crying, as recalled by the emotion, even melancholy, aroused by Joe Biden’s visit to Berlin on October 18 . presented by the newspaper Tagesspiegel like a “The true defender of the transatlantic link says goodbye to Germany”The person of Joe Biden has concentrated all the country’s nostalgia towards the relationship that unites him with his historical partner.
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