Chancellor Merz invites Trump to Germany

Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) spoke on the telephone with the president of the United States Donald Trump 2 days after taking office. Both parties agreed that they wanted to "quickly resolve trade disputes," said a spokesperson for the German government on Thursday evening. According to sources, the Russian aggressive war on Ukraine was besides the subject of talks between the heads of both governments. Both agreed that "killing in Ukraine must end as shortly as possible".

Merz shares Trump's request to Russia She agreed to a ceasefire. The Ombudsman said it should "create a space for negotiation". Trump promised to support German efforts to accomplish lasting peace together with France, United Kingdom, Poland and another European partners. Both parties agreed to further close exchanges and common visits to USA and Germany.

According to the press agency dpa Merz invited Trump to Germany, and government sources reported after about 30-minute conversation. Trump made it clear that he was able to imagine specified a visit. As president Trump visited Germany only once, at the G20 summit in 2017, but for landings at the American base in Ramstein.

Trump, for his part, invited Merz to Washington. Chancellor has already publically stated that he would like to go to the US before the summits G7 And NATO in June, in the next six weeks. The G7 summit will take place in mid-June at Canada , and shortly thereafter, the NATO summit will be held in The Hague.

The differences of opinion and disagreement were mostly ignored, at least in the authoritative message of the German side regarding the telephone conversation. Merz late expressed outrage at the US government's interference with German home policy. As Merz said in an interview with the ZDF on Tuesday evening, “this spreads absurd views on the national Republic of Germany.”

The Chancellor referred to the support given to AfD by the U.S. government and criticism by the US for the classification of AfD by the national Office for the Protection of the Constitution as right-wing extremism. "I would like to encourage and persuade the American government to let interior politics in Germany to stay interior policy and mostly stay distant from these organization considerations," said Merz.

In this context, Merz mentioned a telephone conversation with Trump and said he wanted to talk to him “open”.