“The Discord Is Obvious” – Merkel Slams Trump Ahead Of G-20

Thursday, June 29, 2017
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jun 29, 2017

Ahead of next week’s G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, chancellor Merkel had some fiery words about her two least favorite topics: Donald Trump and Brexit. In a speech to lawmakers in Germany’s lower house of parliament on Thursday, Merkel said that “the world has become less united” and acknowledged that discussions at the G-20 meeting in Hamburg on July 7-8 “will be very difficult.” Quoted by Bloomberg, Merkel said that “the discord is obvious and it would be dishonest to paper over the conflict.”

The unexpectedly confrontational posture comes as Germany is set to host world leaders including President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who are expected to hold their first head-to-head meeting in Hamburg, although the details have not yet been ironed out. Also present will be China’s Xi Jinping and Merkel’s nemesis, Turkey’s president Erdogan, with the meeting taking place “amid a global shake-up that threatens much of the international order on issues established since World War II. On the agenda for the meeting are free trade, climate change and migration.”

If recent G-20 summits are any indication, next week’s meeting is likely to end in confusion and even more fingerpointing, with little in terms of consensus and even shorter communiques.

Aware of the upcoming dissensus, to use a word coined by Deutsche Bank, Merkel took a swipe at Trump’s “America First” rhetoric, saying that nations turning to isolation and protectionism are making a serious mistake and showcased a renewed “spirit of unity” in the European Union after the U.K. decision to exit.

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