The German chancellor has stressed the need to “move forward together” and said she will relay her concerns to Trump. She also called for uniform security standards in German states following the Berlin terror attack. Reports Deutsche Welle.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday urged the United States to stick to multilateral cooperation, and warned that US President-elect Donald Trump’s protectionist attitudes could threaten the global economy.
“My profound conviction is that there are more advantages … to moving forward together than when everyone resolves their problems for themselves. I am truly convinced of this,” she told a press conference at the end of a two-day meeting of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in the town of Perl in the western German state of Saarland.
When asked whether or not Trump’s “protectionist tendencies” could pose a threat, Merkel recalled the international response to the 2008 global financial crisis, which “came from the United States,” she noted.
“The response to overcome that financial crisis was not a response based on closing oneself off, but a response which called for cooperation, for common rules, for regulation of financial markets,” Merkel said.
“I think this way worked, and naturally we are going to seek dialogue with the new American president,” who will be inaugurated on Friday, January 20.
