Merkel: 鈥楨urope鈥檚 fate in its own hands鈥
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EUROPE “must take its fate into its own hands” faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said.
“The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I’ve experienced that in the last few days,” Merkel said yesterday at an election rally in Munich, southern Germany. “We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands.”
While Germany and Europe would strive to remain on good terms with America and Britain, “we have to fight for our own destiny,” Merkel went on.
Special emphasis was needed on warm relations between Berlin and French President Emmanuel Macron, she said.
The chancellor had just returned from a G7 summit which wound up Saturday without a deal between the US and the other six major advanced nations on upholding the 2015 Paris climate accords.
Merkel labelled the result of the “six against one” discussion “very difficult, not to say very unsatisfactory.”
The US president tweeted that he would reveal whether or not the US would stick to the global emissions deal, which he pledged to jettison on the campaign trail, next week.
Trump also reportedly described German trade practices as “bad, very bad,” in Brussels talks last week, complaining that Europe’s largest economy sells too many cars to the US.
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