Angela Merkel: Europe Can No Longer Depend on U.S. Following Trump’s Foreign Trip

‘We Have to Fight for our Own Destiny’

Following the Group of Seven (G7) summit yesterday in Sicily, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today that Europeans can no longer rely on the United States.

The G7 summit included representatives from the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the European Union. Leaders met to discuss the world economy, foreign policy, climate change and other global issues, and it ended with all countries reaffirming the Paris agreement on climate change—with the exception of the United States.

In its final communique from the summit, the leaders were forced to admit this fact, saying that “the United States of America is in the process of reviewing its policies on climate change and on the Paris Agreement and thus is not in a position to join the consensus on these topics.”

“Understanding this process,” the communique continued, “the heads of state and of government of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom and the presidents of the European Council and of the European Commission reaffirm their strong commitment to swiftly implement the Paris Agreement.”

Trump has previously called global warming a hoax created by the Chinese, and has reportedly told confidants that the United States will leave the climate change agreement.

“The entire discussion about climate was very difficult,” Angela Merkel said yesterday, “if not to say very dissatisfying.”

Merkel further echoed those sentiments today before an election rally in Munich, Germany. “The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out,” she said, according to German newspaper Welt. “I’ve experienced that in the last few days.”

“We Europeans truly have to take our fate into our own hands,” she said, reportedly to great applause from her 2000 listeners, referring to both the “new U.S. government of Donald Trump” and “imminent Brexit of Great Britain.” Merkel reaffirmed her intent for Germany to remain friendly with both the United States and Great Britain, however.

 On Twitter today, Donald Trump called his first overseas trip a great success for America:

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