Will Trump’s Middle East war also engulf Friedrich Merz?
The war will have incalculable implications for Europe – and yet, the chancellor has held back from publicly challenging an increasingly erratic Donald Trump• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereYou could be forgiven for thinking Friedrich Merz would rather be...
<p>The war will have incalculable implications for Europe – and yet, the chancellor has held back from publicly challenging an increasingly erratic Donald Trump</p><p>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/22/this-is-europe-sign-up-guardian-email-updates">Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here</a></p><p>You could be forgiven for thinking Friedrich Merz would rather be anywhere but Germany of late.</p><p>But hopes that his stop in Washington this week would provide the chancellor even a brief respite from woes at home were dashed by Donald Trump’s risky <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</a> gamble.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/04/will-trumps-middle-east-war-also-engulf-friedrich-merz">Continue reading...</a>
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