German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her concerns on weakening international cooperations at a conference in Berlin yesterday.
She said “international agreements and institutions are being weakened. This is worrying, since our multilateral global order comes from the lessons we learned from the terrible world wars of the last century.” She added that “the people who experienced World War Two, the last true global catastrophe, are dying out and are no longer there as eyewitnesses.” And, these people “learned from that terrible experience not to embed emnity but that you had to try and build friendships with each other.”
Regarding trade with the US, She said “we are happy to negotiate, but it mustn’t be under a sword of Damocles.”
