The German Chancellor Friedrich Mertzwho took over his duties on May 6, will meet for the first time on Thursday Donald Trumpwho will accept him at the White House, as German government spokesman Stefan Cornelius said.
The meeting will take place on the occasion of Friedrich Mertz’s first official trip to the United States next week, amid tensions associated with Ukraine and the trade war launched by Donald Trump, who imposed or threatened to impose a series of customs duties.
The two men will discuss the issue of trade, the situation in the Middle East, “Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine”, and relations between their two countries, the spokesman said.
Mertz and Trump have already spoken by phone several times.
Due to the importance of exports to its economy, Germany is particularly concerned about the impact of the trade war that Washington started.
The first European economy has already passed two years of recession and has been virtually stagnant since 2018.
Germany is also the largest supplier of military aid in Kiev after the United States.
Donald Trump says he wants to put an end to Russia’s large -scale attack on Ukraine as soon as possible, which lasts for more than three years. For their part, Europeans, while wanting to impose stricter economic sanctions on Russia to force it to accept a truce in Ukraine, are difficult to deal with Donald Trump’s controversial stance, who is impatient, launching threats.
The German Chancellor pledged on Wednesday to help Kiev in production, both in Ukraine and Germany, a large range of rockets, who could reach Russian territory.