German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the US President Donald Trump’s tweets concerning the G7 summit “sobering and a little depressing.”
“It’s hard, it’s depressing this time, but that’s not the end” of the Group of Seven, said Merkel during a televised broadcast on Sunday night.
Merkel added that Europe will implement counter-measures against US tariffs on steel and aluminum, similar to recent measures by Canada.
“So we won’t let ourselves be ripped off again and again. Instead, we act then too,” she said.
She added that the EU would also try to avoid retaliation by the US by imposing tariffs on cars.
“First of all, we’ll try and see if we can prevent this… And then hope that the EU will respond again in the same unity,” she said.
Earlier, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas slammed Trump for sending tweets about a recent meeting of G7 group of industrialized nations, saying those statements are further destroying trust between the…