Hints and tips:
...When Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, gave an emergency address to the nation, she did not mention the EU once....
...Recommended reading The FT was a treasure trove this week, from outgoing editor Lionel Barber’s interview with Angela Merkel to our Big Page on why China wants to decouple technologically from the US....
...Hong Kong artist Angela Yuen has meticulously pieced together plastic toys on a turntable that project her city’s shimmering skyline around a booth....
...Mr Trump will also hold bilateral meetings with Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, and German chancellor Angela Merkel, but any discussion of tightening the screws on China could be overshadowed by the...
...But the more hawkish Trump advisers, like Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative, and Peter Navarro, White House trade counsellor, were also at the negotiating table in Buenos Aires....
...Learning that Mr Trump had walked away from a “painstakingly negotiated communiqué” was “a sobering experience”, Angela Merkel, German chancellor, said in a television interview on Sunday night....
...My reading recommendations this week start with an open letter to Angela Merkel by Yascha Mounk, the German-born Harvard political scientist....
...Tariff exemptions need not threaten US security — letter from Bruce Couchman It surprises me that White House trade adviser Peter Navarro would say that as soon as the US exempted some countries from the...
...Mr Trump and Angela Merkel as the German chancellor prepares to visit Washington next week....
...If Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, were like Mr Trump she would probably tell him that the euro was “our currency and his problem”....
...When Peter Navarro, head of President Donald Trump’s National Trade Council, says the “implicit Deutsche Mark . . . is grossly undervalued”, he has a point....
...The comments highlight a growing willingness by the Trump administration to antagonise EU leaders and particularly Angela Merkel , the German chancellor....
...Can Angela Merkel repeat that happy tale when she visits Washington next week? The omens don’t look good....
...discussions with Angela Merkel’s government over ways to reduce the US trade deficit with Europe’s most powerful economy....
...Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, responded to Mr Navarro’s allegations, saying Germany could not influence the euro....
...In the face of US president Donald Trump’s apparent aversion to many of the policies of Angela Merkel, the German leader, and to the EU more broadly, the 2017 Bundestag elections have taken on new and momentous...
...The previous day Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, denied that Berlin was seeking to influence the valuation of the euro — after a top Trump adviser in an interview with the Financial Times accused Berlin...
...A snapshot of his shelves runs from Amos Oz to Isabel Allende by way of Steinbeck, Márquez, Jürgen Habermas (on Europe, of course) and di Lampedusa’s The Leopard ....
...The talks were also taking place as Chancellor Angela Merkel was due to have her potentially tense first meeting in Washington with President Donald Trump....
...The surplus has been strongly attacked by Mr Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro, who has also accused Germany of exploiting a “grossly undervalued” euro....
...Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet her US counterpart for the first time on Friday for a summit at which she hopes to defuse potential conflicts, including over economic policy....
...Peter Navarro, the head of Mr Trump’s new National Trade Council, last week told the FT that Germany was exploiting the US and its EU partners by using a “grossly undervalued” euro to create a vast trade...
...They are particularly concerned about recent comments by Peter Navarro, Mr Trump’s top trade adviser, who has accused Germany of exploiting the low euro to boost exports and run huge trade surpluses....
...Peter Navarro, Mr Trump’s top trade adviser, has subsequently accused Berlin of using a “grossly undervalued” euro to “exploit” the US and its EU partners....
...As a young woman growing up in Communist East Germany, Angela Merkel dreamt of visiting the US “where”, as she later said, “the air is full of the spirit of freedom and independence”....
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