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MPs from the major parties in the German Bundestag expressed outrage at the statement of the American President Donald trump on the debt of Germany to the United States and NATO for security and defense of Germany. On Sunday, March 19, the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
“Germany owes US. The only thing we don’t have is money. Errors in judgment of the President about the historical role of the United States is unprecedented and extremely upset,” said the Chairman of the Committee of the Federal Assembly of Germany on foreign Affairs, member of the Christian democratic Union Norbert Rettgen.
The speaker of the Social democratic party of Germany (SPD), an expert on foreign policy Niels Annen expressed the opinion that the American leader expressed criticism would split NATO and would cast doubt on joint operations, including in the Baltic States. “Trump is behaving like the Chinese Emperor with his loyal subjects, obliged to pay tribute to him”, — he stressed.
Earlier on March 19 in the words of the President of the United States responded to the German Minister of defense Ursula von der Leyen. She disproved his statement about the huge debts of the Berlin NATO and Washington. “NATO is not the account debtors,” she said.
On 18 March, the President of the United States Donald trump after the meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel wrote on his Twitter page that Germany allegedly owes a “huge amount of money, NATO and the United States.” The American leader has underlined that “for the powerful and very expensive defense we provide to Germany,” you have to pay.