The Chancellor also said that he does not consider this to be a temporary development. “The changes that we see in the United States of America have not come overnight and they won’t go again during the day and they are not suddenly disappearing with the next elections.” The rule -based order is not only questioned by authoritarian political systems today. “Unfortunately, it also applies to America,” said Merz, emphasizing how much he was connected to the country. The Chancellor was the chairman of the Atlantic Bridge, an association that is committed to German-American relations, and in the meantime worked for an American company: the investment company Blackrock.
Critics accuse the government around President Donald Trump, they specifically restrict freedom of expression and have unpleasant opponents pursued legally. It was only on Thursday that after a massive pressure from Trump on the judiciary, his adversary and ex-FBI boss James Comey were charged. The temporary break of the well-known late night talker Jimmy Kimmel, who Trump had expressly celebrated, also made the worries about freedom of expression in the United States greater.
According to the EU Commission, the customs agreement between the USA and the EU protects European pharmaceutical companies from newly announced US tariffs on medicines. In the joint declaration of August, a “clear and comprehensive upper limit of 15 percent for EU exports” was recorded, said a commission spokesman for the AFP news agency. This is “a kind of protection that no higher tariffs are introduced for European economic players,” he explained. Read more about it here.
