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Arne Delfs

Berlin

Government Reporter at Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News, Government Reporter in Berlin. All views are personal.

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  • 5 days ago | bloomberg.com | Arne Delfs |Michael Nienaber

    Bei ihrem ersten Telefonat seit dem Amtsantritt von Friedrich Merz als neuer Bundeskanzler waren sich der CDU-Chef und US-Präsident Donald Trump einig, die Handelsstreitigkeiten “rasch beilegen” zu wollen. Nach Angaben der Bundesregierung habe Merz in dem Telefonat am Donnerstagabend auch die entschiedene Unterstützung Deutschlands für die Ukraine betont und Trumps Forderung nach einem raschen Ende des russischen Krieges befürwortet.

  • 5 days ago | bloomberg.com | Arne Delfs |Michael Nienaber

    Friedrich Merz (Bloomberg) -- Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, and US President Donald Trump agreed that trade disputes should be resolved quickly and discussed the need for close cooperation between the two nations. In his first call with Trump since taking office on Tuesday, Merz also stressed Germany’s robust backing for Ukraine, according to a statement late Thursday from the chancellor’s office in Berlin.

  • 6 days ago | delfi.lt | Michael Nienaber |Arne Delfs |Kamil Kowalcze

    Larsas Klingbeilas, Friedrichas Merzas FOTO: Liesa Johannssen | Reuters / Scanpix

  • 1 week ago | kdhnews.com | Arne Delfs |Samy Adghirni

    New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to reset ties between their nations and join forces to help strengthen the European Union's defensive capabilities and competitiveness. "As we face war on our continent, fierce global competition, accelerating climate and technological change, and threats of a global trade war, we have agreed on a comprehensive agenda to relaunch our relationship," the two leaders wrote in a joint article for Le Figaro newspaper.

  • 1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Arne Delfs |Maciej Martewicz

    German police check vehicles arriving from Poland at a border checkpoint in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany. (Bloomberg) -- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk pushed back against plans by Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz to tighten border controls with its European Union neighbors, saying the focus should rather be on reinforcing the bloc’s outside frontier.

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Arne Delfs
Arne Delfs @ArneDelfs
3 May 25

The Trumpian view of things #AfD

Secretary Marco Rubio
Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio

Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies

Arne Delfs
Arne Delfs @ArneDelfs
29 Apr 25

Germany’s acting Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the disputed Nord Stream gas pipeline shouldn’t be reactivated, amid suggestions that renewed deliveries from Russia could be tied to a ceasefire deal in Ukraine https://t.co/vMThI3SdPp via @bpolitics

Arne Delfs
Arne Delfs @ArneDelfs
5 Apr 25

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz faces pressure to diversify trade relations because of US tariffs https://t.co/IQ9SijJgRP via @bpolitics