Germany’s Merz lashes out at Trump’s US while trying to form coalition | Politics News

Germany’s advisor to the US administration, Donald Trump, swollen hours after winning Federal elections on Sunday.
“after [President] “Donald Trump’s statements last week … it is clear that this government does not care much about the fate of Europe,” Friedrich Mirz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said in a televised discussion on the election night. He called for German “Independence” from the United States.
On February 18, Trump called Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski, “Successful Comedian”, who became a “dictator without elections” did a terrible job.
It was a dramatic reflection of the narrow bonds that Zelinski enjoyed with Trump’s ancestor, Joe Biden. Zelenskyy offered To resign on Sunday if Ukraine acquires an immediate membership of NATO.
A week ago, US Defense Secretary Beit Higseth stunned European leaders when he told them that “they should provide the overwhelming share of deadly and non -deadly aid in the future of Ukraine”, and take the initiative to protect their continent from Russia by spending 5 percent of the local GDE (productive total ( GDP) on defense, up from 2 percent today.
It was certain that “whether we were talking about NATO in its current form” at the next NATO summit in June, Mirz said, “or whether we have to create a European defense capacity much more quickly.”
At a press conference on Monday, Mirz told the correspondents, “Five minutes have passed over midnight for Europe” for the defense.
His bold speech is at odds with the weakness of the voters.
CDU is 28.6 per cent of Sunday’s vote is the lowest margin of its victory since the establishment of the party in 1949.
Mirz believes that the United States is “throwing Ukraine to wolves”
Mirz is in accelerating talks to form a “major alliance” in the middle with the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which was expelled from his post.
CDU, along with the Christian Social Union (CSU), can rule with 360 members in Bundestag 630, German Parliament. But they will have to get rid of their differences in foreign policy, defense and economic policy that supports them.
SPD OLAF Scholz’s leader has the power to provide Tauurus 500 km (310 mi) missiles to Ukraine. Mirz said last October that he would do so if Russia refuses to stop attacking Ukrainian civilians. Moscow constantly denies targeting civilians in its war in Ukraine.
“Mirz clearly believes that the United States throws Ukraine to wolves and provides weapons to Ukraine will strengthen its hand,” said Timothy, the least chief geographical advisor at the Cambridge University Risk Studies Center. “But doing this will be complicated. German society is divided into the issue of military support for Ukraine as well as the Democratic Democratic Party.”
“Once the European Union, the European Union realizes the amazing financial cost to invite the war effort of Ukraine and the long -term danger of pushing Russia to more tight alliances with China, North Korea and Iran, will seek war,” said the former marine commander and the United States attachment to Greece and Israel, the Al -Jazeera.
Merz and Scholz agree on the need to make the German manufacturing industry more competitive by providing cheaper energy, but CDU wants to revitalize three nuclear energy stations stopped by the CCOLZ government.
Mirz also wants to reduce the luxury country, which is at the heart of SPD’s economic policy.
He told the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos last month: “It is a big mistake to pay the price of not working, and to give others the best incentives to return to the labor market.”
Among their biggest differences is the roof of the constitutional deficit of Germany, which is 0.35 percent of GDP. It was one of the reasons that made it three years of Scholz to raise defense spending to 2 percent of GDP. Both leaders have passed to 5 percent.
“Without the real budget muscles behind it, Mirz’s speech is just noise,” Graims said.
Scholz now supports the creation of “smart and targeted debt change”, on the pretext that the 62 percent low German debt of GDP gives it space for borrowing.
Mirz, who was a defender for the ceiling of deficit, said in November that he could consider changing it, but not for the type of spending on the luxury that social democrats are very fond.
Perhaps the greatest dispute of the husband is to emigrate.
“We will immediately stop this part of the migration that comes from the family reunification,” Mirz told WEF. There are 500000 [people] Those who have come to Germany in the past four years without any control. This should be stopped immediately. “
As the opposition leader, Mirz called on the Democratic Democratic Party to support this measure on January 29.
When they refused, Shock By inviting support from any quarter, including the far -right alternative to Germany (AFD). “I can’t trust him anymore,” Schulz said after the vote.
United in adversity
There are two factors that may be closer to Merz and Scholz. One of them is the increase to support AFD, which lasted 20.8 percent of the sounds, twice offered in 2021, by eating it away in both CDU and SPD, partially on immigration.
The two parties decided not to work with the far right.
The other is the shift in American support for defense in Europe, which is called “the game change” as the United States can now withdraw 35,000 soldiers stationed in Germany.
“I am taking Mirz’s comments on independence from the United States as a serious captain about his support and Germany’s strongest,” said Less. “The American security guarantee is no longer guaranteed, and therefore the main reason for the NATO alternative to opposition is the fall.”
Can this be done? European defense independence can be a more likely proposal if Germany and France work together to include the United Kingdom in a European defense alliance over the European Union.
Others are less convinced.
“Europe climbs the defense game that will not weaken NATO; Graims said,” It will strengthen the alliance, strengthen the Atlantic relations, and improve cooperation. “
“The real issue is not the autonomy for its interest – it relates to increased deterrence,” he said. “It can not only enhance European enhanced capabilities, and does not replace that long umbrella.”
He added, “The greatest defensive spending” will come at a price because the more the independence of the Europeans in terms of security, the more political independent, which allows them, for example, to approach China. “To the United States” strategic interests. “
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