The Trump administration is indifferent to the fate of Europe, CDU’s Friedrich Merz has said Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), at a campaign event in Potsdam, Germany on February 18, 2025. © Sean Gallup / Getty Images
“The interventions from Washington were no less dramatic, drastic, and ultimately outrageous than the intervention we saw from Moscow,” Merz told reporters on Sunday night, according to the news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
“The Americans, at least those in the current government, are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe,” he said. The conservative politician went on to argue that Germany must boost its defense and “gradually achieve independence from the US.”
“I would have never thought that I would have to say something like that on a TV show,” he said.
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