Press voices
“Better than Friedrich Merz during this visit you probably can’t do it”
Breathe off with Friedrich Merz: His visit to Donald Trump ran as planned – maybe even better. The press is entirely impressed by the Chancellor’s appearance in Washington.
It was a journey into the unknown for Friedrich Merz: his first visit as Chancellor in the United States- with an unpredictable US president who has already exposed some heads of state and government in his office.
In the end everything went smoothly. All formalities were preserved, even if Merz hardly had their say next to Donald Trump. Accordingly, the press issues a good certificate to the Chancellor after his inaugural visit to the White House.
“Rheinpfalz”: “In the end, Merz ‘visit is not an estimating part of the numerous and coordinated attempts by the Europeans to prevent Gau from protecting the USA.
“Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung”: “In football, one would say: 1-0 for Friedrich Merz. But since nobody knows how long the game is going, this evaluation could also be premature. The sporting comparison is allowed, given the fact that US President Donald Trump described the bloody war between Russia and Ukraine as a competition where two boys wrapped. The Chancellor’s instructions should only be murdered by Russia, while Ukraine was not only shaky in terms of content. “
“Süddeutsche Zeitung”: “Merz overall gets away much better at Trump than the then Chancellor Angela Merkel, the then US President Trump demonstratively refused to have the handshake in his office. (…) In Washington, the joke made the round in Washington, Merz should fly directly to Palm Beach with his propeller machine and go to the golf course with Trump. For the time being, the journey with the government aircraft to the US President in America’s capital also seems to have ended quite well. “
“It could hardly have gone better for the Chancellor”
“Picture”: “He mastered his introductory date in the White House confidently – even if he became a secondary figure in Trump’s largely 45 -minute long monologue. But overall: no mistake! Mission.”
“The time”: “Merz has positioned himself – not only as a transatlantic bridge builder, but also as a German head of government. Security -politically strongest ally in NATO, economically third largest economy in the world, these are the frame data about Germany, which should not be remembered. He calls in Europe, he should also think of the German Chancellor. “
“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”: “It could hardly have run better for the Federal Chancellor in the Oval Office. Merz used every second to highlight Germany and America, to pronounce thanks and praise Trump. He did at least as well as Macron. However, the Chancellor also benefited from the fact that another has just lost the president’s favor. Musk Pech was Merz’s luck.”
“Merz brought what Trump had asked”
“The mirror”: “The greatest happiness for Friedrich Merz was: nobody was really interested here for him, Germany or Europe. What Friedrich Merz gave in the Oval Office, but was the gück of the capable. Obviously the Federal Chancellor had prepared for his inaugural visit. (…) It was only a first meeting for the cameras and without real content. And Trump’s friendships are just as important as his absurd Burring, here in the Oval Office, both the first and the Second World War were started and ended – hardly any better than Friedrich Merz. “
“The New York Times” (USA): “At least superficially, the appearance in the Oval Office was better for Merz than he and his advisors secretly expected. There were no breakdowns that Trump’s other meetings characterized with foreign heads. The two men got on well and exchanged compliments.”
“The Times” (Great Britain): “Foreign state and heads of state and heads of government are always striving for remarkable gifts when they meet President Trump. When Friedrich Merz entered the Oval Office, he had the rare advantage of bringing almost exactly what Trump had asked. In a few weeks, the Federal Chancellor initially brought a reform from the Bundestag, which made one theoretically unlimited public borrowing possible, and then possible, and then possible, and then At the aim of putting 3.5 percent of the gross domestic product in the armed forces and a further 1.5 percent in other security -relevant areas such as infrastructure and cyber defense. Ukraine, the imposition of secondary US sanctions against countries that buy Russian energy and the weakening of its demands in the customs negotiations with the EU. “
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Source: Stern
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