Germany’s Merz aims to sweet talk Trump on Ukraine and tariffs
Tamara Ceaikovski
BERLIN — Faced with Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has a notably resigned message for the U.S. president: Who are we Europeans to judge? Despite the German leader’s deep concern that the conflict in the Middle East will spiral out of control, with potentially grave consequences for Europe, Merz said ahead of his Tuesday Oval Office meeting with Trump that he was in no position to criticize the U.S. president. After all, he argued, Germany’s own approach
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