Merz only wants to go to the USA as a chancellor. In the United States, President Donald Trump is reorganizing foreign and domestic politics. All developments in the news blog.
CDU boss Friedrich Merz has excluded a quick trip to US President Donald Trump. “I am not planning a trip to the USA at the moment. I will only do that after the election in the German Bundestag,” said Merz after a CDU committee meeting. The CDU chairman explains that he assumes a “accumulated escalation” in the encounter of Trump and the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj in the White House.
He was “reasonably amazed” about the mutual tone. “I also advertise that we do everything we can to keep the Americans in Europe,” emphasizes the former chairman of the Atlantic Bridge. “I believe that the Americans have their own interest in staying in Europe to maintain a transatlantic partnership with Europe together.” But he has no completed picture of the US policy. In the past few days, Merz had expressed doubts as to whether a close partnership was still possible with the United States under Trump.
The American journalist and author Craig Unger (“American compromise”) is certain that Donald Trump was managed by the KGB as a so -called “asset”. The first contacts are said to have existed in the 1980s. Read more about it here.
On the platform X, Donald Trump shared Jr.’s son of the US President, a photo that is labeled with provocative texts. It shows the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj, Donald Trump and JD Vance. Read more about it here.
The new FBI director Kash Patel appointed by Donald Trump apparently plans to involve the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in the training of its agents. This reported the Reuters news agency, citing four people familiar with the matter. Accordingly, Patel spoke about possible cooperation with the ladders of the 55 FBI branch offices during an internal video conference. Two of the informed people described the idea as “surreal” and “absurd”. Read more about this here.
A journalist from the Russian state news agency Tass apparently received access to the Oval Office on Friday, while US President Donald Trump met the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj. According to CNN, Tass was not on the official list of the approved media, but the reporter managed to take part in the high -ranking meeting. The White House said that the Russian journalist had not been authorized and was accompanied when his presence was noticed. Read more about it here.
After Trump’s takeover of power, many US media are conspicuously back with clear criticism of the new president. Some publications are horrified by the latest scandal in their comments – an overview.
Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj regretted the outcome of the meeting with Donald Trump in the US broadcaster Fox. But he didn’t want to apologize. Read more about it here.
In Russia, Donald Trump advertises for his behavior towards Selenskyj. The Russian foreign office spokeswoman Maria Sacharova described the behavior of US President Donald Trump as reserved at his meeting with the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj. Here you can find out which words she still chose.
