Germany's Merz elected chancellor
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz volition question to Washington adjacent week to conscionable U.S. President Donald Trump, with the war successful Ukraine and commercialized tensions among the items connected the agenda, the German authorities said Saturday.
Merz's bureau said the caller German leader, who took the helm of Europe's biggest system connected May 6, volition conscionable Trump astatine the White House connected Thursday — the archetypal in-person gathering betwixt the two.
It said that the gathering volition code bilateral relations and planetary issues specified arsenic Russia's warfare successful Ukraine, the concern successful the Middle East and commercialized policy.
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The apical occupation has been precocious successful coming for Merz, a lawyer by profession, who saw his ascent derailed by erstwhile Chancellor Angela Merkel successful the aboriginal 2000s and adjacent turned his backmost connected progressive authorities for respective years.
Merz has plunged into diplomatic efforts to effort to unafraid a ceasefire and support Western enactment for Ukraine intact since becoming Germany's leader. On Wednesday, helium hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy successful Berlin.
Germany has a beardown involvement successful defusing commercialized tensions betwixt the European Union and the United states.
Trump threatened to impose a 50% tariff connected goods imported from the 27-nation bloc starting Sunday, but past pushed backmost the deadline to July 9.
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