Germany Merz acknowledges that Europe was traveling to the US

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has taken allegations to the United States that Europe was doing too little to finance its own protection and security, but now think they are on the same page.

“We know what we need to do more and we were in the past,” he said in the BBC program today, -they are asking us to do more and we are doing more. “

Merz was in the UK to increase defense ties with Germany under the historical contract of friendship, which is also aimed at combating irregular migration and promotion of youth exchanges.

Russia’s war with Ukraine has issued the first weeks of the chancellor, as well as the threat of US President Donald Trump to impose 30% of the European Union exports since August 1.

Merz told Nick Robinson, in his first interview in the UK as a chancellor that he had now met Trump three times, and they were in good conversations: “I think President Trump is on the same page; we try to bring this war to the end.”

“We are on the phone once a week; we coordinate our efforts. One of the questions is the war in Ukraine and the other is a trading debate and tariffs.”

Merz was a supporter of the vocal of Ukraine on the way of the company and visited Kiev for months before he took in February the right -wing Christian Democrats of Germany for the polls.

Four days after the oath in early May, he was on a train to Kiev in a demonstration of solidarity with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starr and President Emmanuel Macron from France.

“We see a great threat, and the threat is Russia. And this threat goes not only to Ukraine. It is about our peace, about our freedom, in Europe’s political order,” he warned.

In the run-up to the German election, the US Vice President JD Vance shocked the audience at the Munich Security Conference with a list of allegations against European allies, including in the UK.

Reflecting on the comments, Mertz said the government “had to pull out our consequences.” The message from “Very open manner” was, in other words, heard loudly and clearly.

Canan Atylgan from Conrad Adenauer Foundation in London, which is closely linked to the Merza party, believes that it had a deep impact on the incident: “I think in Munich he thought we lost the Americans – we should look after ourselves – and then Zelensky in the Oval Office It happened. “

Even before he swore, the Chancellor managed a change in the German Constitution to ensure a huge increase in defense costs, saying that the rule to protect the German language should do whatever it is.

“We are not strong enough, our army is not strong enough, so we spend a lot of money,” he said in his interview with the BBC.

Together, the UK, Germany and France are working on a triangular union of major European states called E3, which, according to Merz, will focus not only on security and foreign policy, but also on economic growth.

The Chancellor said that now “very close to Keir Starmer” and also with the French president. Macron must visit him in Berlin next week.

The French leader signed a wide contract with Germany in Aachen in 2019, and last week he agreed with a deeper defense pact during a state visit to the UK, so the UK’s Friendship Completion Completes Triangle Bilateral Relations.

Sitting in the plush environment of the German Embassy, Friedrich Merz was going to go to the Victoria and Albert Museum to sign the Pact with the Prime Minister.

Mertz said the bilateral contract resumed the commitment of two allies to defend each other – which is not only part of the NATO contract, but also before when the UK was in the EU.

British and German firms are already cooperating in the production of products such as Typhoon Eurofighter Jets and Boxer Boxicles, and two governments have agreed to launch joint export companies, which, according to Downing, can attract billions of pounds.

They also develop a rocket with a range of 2000 km (1250 miles), and later the chancellor said at a press conference that Ukraine would soon receive significant additional support in the “Fire Fire”.

The 69 -year -old Merz is seen as a strong believer in the Transatlantic Alliance and is well aware of the United States from his years under a policy that works at an American investment firm.

However, on the night of the election, he stated that the Trump administration was “largely indifferent to the fate of Europe”, a note at a time that is observed as a deferral for the chancellor in anticipation.

Asked if he changed his mind since then, he said he was not, because Trump was “not as clear and as devoted to the US presidents, were former US administrations.”

The Americans retreated from Europe and turned to Asia, noticed, and therefore it was important to look at great independence from US defense.

The UK has greatly escaped turbulence related to US export tariffs, but the European Union faces less than two weeks, and the threat of 30% of the tariffs for all its goods.

This week, Washington went to Washington, which would regret all 27 member states that would release all 27 member states who went to Washington.

Merz views high tariffs as unacceptable and killing the export industry of Germany.

“My observation is that the President himself sees the problems and that he is ready to come to the agreement. He gets it.”

Another important element of the UK-Herman’s Treaty is the Berlin Agreement on changing the Law on Criminal Liability of Smuggels that retain small boats in Germany for use in illegal channels. Storage of boats in Germany was revealed by the BBC investigation last year.

The chancellor said his government “would do homework” immediately and expected that after a summer break would not take long.

There are also plans for a direct railway connection with London to Berlin, as well as for British and German students to participate in the exchanges that fell with Brexit.

Mertz said he was very hoping that the first people who could see the practical difference from the friendship contract would be students so that the younger generation could lead to relationships between two allies in the future.