Merz Says U.S. Friendship ‘Probably Over’

“German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the era of ‘unconditional’ ties between the U.S. and Europe built since World War II are over, at least for now, the latest pronouncement of a breakdown in relations under Donald Trump’s presidency,” Bloomberg reports.

Said Merz: “This era of unconditional transatlantic friendship is probably over for the foreseeable future. On the other side of the Atlantic, we are seeing a change in political attitudes, a change in the assessment of the transatlantic alliance, which we might not have thought possible.”