Merkel makes pointed reference to US
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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, remarking pointedly that the United States embrace of open markets in post-World War II Europe served America’s own interests.
Then-Secretary of State George Marshall outlined an aid plan for Europe in a June 1947 speech that kicked off what became known as the Marshall Plan. The anniversary comes amid concern in Europe about President Donald Trump’s “America first” approach to trade and other matters.
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who joined Merkel in Berlin to commemorate the anniversary, said Marshall’s speech “proclaimed above all the end of American isolationism.” Neither he nor Merkel referred directly to Trump or his administration.
The German leader, however, stressed the importance of standing up for shared values, of balancing interests and trying to create “win-win situations.” Merkel reiterated that “we in Europe are called on more than ever to recognize that we have our fate to some extent in our hand, and must take it in our hand.” That, she said, goes for foreign, security and trade policy.
She stressed that Germany’s “integration in the Western community of values was, is and remains the cornerstone of our foreign and security policy” whatever challenges Europe and the US face.
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