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Trump will meet German Chancellor Merz on the White Home. This is what to know
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Trump will meet German Chancellor Merz on the White Home. This is what to know

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By Tycoon Herald 4 Min Read Published June 5, 2025
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a information convention on the chancellery in Berlin, Might 28.

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BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will go to the White Home on Thursday for a gathering with President Trump that is anticipated to deal with the conflicts in Ukraine and the Center East, in addition to tariffs and commerce.

Whereas they’ve spoken by telephone a number of instances in latest weeks, that is Merz’s first journey to Washington since turning into Germany’s chancellor in Might.

With the most important financial system within the European Union, Germany is keen to deescalate commerce tensions with america as a July 9 deadline looms on the Trump administration’s threatened 50% tariffs on imports from the EU. The 27-country bloc says it’s making ready “countermeasures” in response.

President Trump has typically criticized Germany particularly over commerce and protection. “In his logic, Europe takes advantage of the United States, both in terms of its security umbrella, but also because of its economic prowess in the world,” says political scientist Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, government vp of the Bertelsmann Stiftung, an impartial assume tank primarily based in northern Germany.

“Merz has to prove that what he is seeking is a truly collaborative relationship with this administration,” she says, “but that also he will not stand for the image of Germany as a country that does not give back, either to the international community or to the trans-Atlantic relationship.”

In this photo taken in the Oval Office, President Trump sits on a yellow upholstered chair on the right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sits on a similar chair on the left. Trump is wearing a blue suit with a red tie, and Zelenskyy is wearing black pants and a long-sleeved black shirt. Behind them is a fireplace.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

Clüver Ashbrook says this might show to be a problem for Merz, a 69-year-old conservative former banker who has solely been chancellor for a month. The assembly follows visits this 12 months by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who discovered themselves beneath verbal assaults by Trump within the Oval Workplace. Different European leaders corresponding to French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had cordial receptions on the White Home.

“Friedrich Merz is not known to hold back his emotions, and yet this is a high-stakes diplomatic play for him,” says Clüver Ashbrook, “and I would hope that his team has made him aware of the more confrontational elements that might be part of this conversation.”

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (center) and Britain's Defence Secretary John Healey (right) meet with BAE system apprentices as they look at a submarine model during a joint visit on March 20 in Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom. Starmer says the U.K. must upgrade its military in response to threats from Russia.

Since he turned chancellor on Might 6, Merz has plunged into diplomatic efforts to safe a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and to take care of Western assist for Kyiv. On Wednesday, he hosted Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Berlin.

Leader of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Friedrich Merz, is congratulated by outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz after being elected new chancellor at the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Tuesday.

Merz has additionally freed up a whole lot of billions of {dollars} within the nationwide price range to construct up Germany’s army — a previous level of competition for President Trump, who has criticized the quantity Germany and different NATO allies spend on protection whereas relying on the U.S. safety umbrella, which incorporates a number of army bases in Germany.

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