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Why Germans are relieved after Merz’s Oval Office debut | Berlin Briefing
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51:18Now PlayingFriedrich Merz was bracing for a bust-up on his first visit to the Oval Office since becoming German Chancellor. The warning signs were flashing red, after JD Vance’s speech attacking Berlin’s democratic standards at the Munich Security Conference and Marco Rubio’s recent declaration that Germany was acting like a “tyranny.” But despite all that, the first Merz-Trump meeting turned out to be harmonious. Why? In this edition of Berlin Briefing, Michaela Küfner in Washington and Nina Haase and Richard Walker in Berlin look for answers – in Merz’s strategy, Trump’s memories of Angela Merkel, and the best thing any politician can hope for: luck. And they look beyond the moment to the warning signs – particularly in Trump’s comments on the Ukraine war.
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