BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s call for Europe to take more responsibility for its own security was not an era-defining moment but “the logical consequence” of years of American foreign policy, her chief of staff said Wednesday.
“Europe and the U.S. have been very close allies for many years,” Peter Altmaier, a longtime confidante of the chancellor, said at POLITICO’s Connected Citizens Summit in Berlin, “but there is a debate, an ongoing debate in the U.S. for more than 20 years, whether the U.S. should turn more to … Asia or to Europe — and we are not teaching the …read more
Source: European Voice
