said. “We’ve had two kicks at it so far, and they’ve been very different summers, so we’re hoping for the good one.”
, Europe’s biggest, moving again after it shrank the past two years. He wants to make it a “locomotive of growth,” but Trump’sare a potential obstacle for a country whose exports have been a key strength. At present, the economy is forecast to stagnate in 2025.
Germany exported $160 billion worth of goods to the U.S. last year, according to the Census Bureau. That was about $85 billion more than what the U.S. sent to Germany, a trade deficit that Trump wants to erase.The U.S. president has specifically gone after the German auto sector, which includes major brands such as Audi, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Porsche and Volkswagen. Americans bought $36 billion worth of cars, trucks and auto parts from Germany last year, while the Germans purchased $10.2 billion worth of vehicles and parts from the U.S.Trump’s 25% tariff on autos and parts is specifically designed to increase the cost of German-made automobiles in hopes of causing them to move their factories to the U.S., even though many of the companies already have plants in the U.S. with Volkswagen in Tennessee, BMW in South Carolina and Mercedes-Benz in Alabama and South Carolina.
There’s only so much Merz can achieve on his view that tariffs “benefit no one and damage everyone” while in Washington, as trade negotiations are a matter for the European Union’s executive commission. Trump recently delayed a planned 50% tariff on goods coming from the European Union, which would have otherwise gone into effect this month.One source of strain in recent months is a speech Vice President JD Vance
in February, in which he lectured European leaders about the state of democracy on the continent and said there is no place for “firewalls.”
That term is frequently used to describe mainstream German parties’ refusal to work with the far-rightEl alemán es el idioma más hablado después del inglés y el español en ocho estados: Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Montana, Dakota del Norte, Carolina del Sur y Wyoming. En total, más de 871.000 personas mayores de 5 años hablaban alemán en casa en 2021, en comparación con 1,6 millones en 1980.
Florida tenía casi medio millón de hablantes de haitiano, lo que lo convierte en el idioma más común después del inglés y el español. El estado del sol tiene la población haitiana más grande del país.En Minnesota y Wisconsin, el hmong es el segundo idioma no anglo más hablado en casa. Muchos hmong se establecieron en los estados de la región después de huir del sudeste asiático a mediados de la década de 1970 tras la Guerra de Vietnam.
El coreano es el idioma más hablado en Alabama y Virginia, después del inglés y el español.En Dakota del Sur, el dialecto lakota del pueblo sioux era el idioma más común hablado después del inglés y el español.