BERLIN: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated Tuesday (Dec 9) that the Trump administration’s new national security strategy underscores the necessity for Europe to turn into “way more unbiased” from the US by way of safety coverage.
Merz additionally pushed again in opposition to the notion that European democracy wants saving.
The US technique, printed Friday, paints European allies as weak, whereas providing tacit assist to far-right political events, and was vital of European free speech and migration coverage.
On Monday, European Council President António Costa warned the US in opposition to interfering in Europe’s affairs and stated solely European residents can resolve which events ought to govern them.
Merz, the chief of the European Union’s most populous nation and its greatest economic system, stated he wasn’t stunned by the substance of the technique because it was largely in step with a lecture US Vice President JD Vance gave to European allies in Munich in February.
Elements of the doc are comprehensible, however “a few of it’s unacceptable for us from the European perspective,” he informed reporters within the western German metropolis of Mainz.
“The People need to save democracy in Europe now, I don’t see any want for that,” Merz stated. “If it wanted to be saved, we might handle that alone.”
He added that the brand new US doc “confirms my evaluation that we in Europe, and so additionally in Germany, should turn into way more unbiased from the US by way of safety coverage. This isn’t a shock, nevertheless it has now been confirmed once more. It has been documented.”
