US President Donald Trump pulled hard to Berlin on Tuesday. 'We have a huge trade deficit with the Germans,' he tweeted. 'In addition, they draw too little money for NATO and the armed forces. That's very bad for the US and this is going to change. '
After the G7 summit in Sicily, Angela Merkel has called on Europe to reflect on his own strength, due to Donald Trump's intransigent performance. 'We Europeans must really take our fate,' said the German Chancellor on Sunday at an election meeting in Munich.
Donald Trump's first trip abroad as president resembles. He and First Lady Melania returned to the White House on Saturday night. See here the most striking moments of the trip.
US President Donald Trump called the fight against terrorism the main issue of the G7 summit in Sicily. The discussions are a number of very important issues, Trump wrote on Twitter on Saturday. But 'terrorism is at the top of the list'.
Turkey has dropped its objections against German parliamentary visits to German soldiers in Turkey. German MPs can visit their countrymen in the NATO base in Konya. The air force base Incirlik is currently taboo.
The celebrated performance of former President Barack Obama in Berlin was given a follow-up on Friday with criticism of his successor Donald Trump. The German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel approved the policy of the current US president. He claimed to increase defense spending to 2 percent of gross domestic product.
The British police have started to share information with the United States, including the attack in Manchester. That happened after the Americans gave new assurances that the information was not cleared.
NATO spokesman Jens Stoltenberg is convinced that US President Donald Trump is fully behind NATO and the principle of common defense. That he said on Thursday evening after the NATO summit in Brussels.
The Belgian police arrested a total of 128 protesters demonstrating against NATO and US President Trump on Thursday. A fortnight climbed viaducts over the Brussels route to bend banners, while ninety protesters arrested crossing the NATO headquarters where the NATO summit was held.
The leaders of the 28 NATO countries have agreed on an action plan against terrorism on Thursday at their Brussels summit. An important part of this is to intensify the battle against IS.
US President Donald Trump watched Thursday in Brussels by putting the Prime Minister of Montenegro with a handful of hands, then facing him. On social media, the moment that is sharply pictured is massively shared.
EU President Donald Tusk raised human rights in Turkey during an interview in Brussels on Thursday with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. That twittered Tusk after the end itself.
Striking, pragmatic, very open, that's Donald Trump. The fresh French president Emmanuel Macron, after his first meeting with the slightly less green US president in Brussels, did not want to give 'psychological comments' to the character that many people fascinate in Europe.
Europeans and Canada also have to pay the wallet without mourning to bring their defense to order. President Trump demands hard action.
Germany withdraws its troops from the Turkish air force base, Incirlik, as German parliamentarians who can not visit. This threatened German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday at the NATO summit in Brussels, where also Turkish President Erdogan is present. Merkel will convey the message 'very clearly' to him.
Premier Mark Rutte does not expect Donald Trump to read the class when he meets him on Thursday. 'I honestly expect a constructive setup,' he said before the NATO summit in Brussels.
While her husband had meetings with several EU leaders, Melanie Trump was working in Brussels on Thursday with childbirths. The First Lady visited the University Children's Hospital Queen Fabiola in Laeken.
The EU and US do not agree with Russia. European President Tusk said that after a meeting with President Trump in Brussels.
President Donald Trump was received in Brussels on Thursday by EU president Donald Tusk. That happened in the Tusk Tower, with a wink to the Trump Tower in New York, a newly built building in Brussels, where the European summit takes place.
The British government is furious about leaking information from the investigation into the terrorist attack in Manchester via American media. The authorities suspect that the information that is shared on the basis of long-term agreements, via American intelligence services, finds its way to the media, according to Sky News and The Guardian.
The NATO meeting Thursday was prepared to the point. There is only one uncertain factor, namely the main guest itself. President Trump takes care of top tension in Brussels.
Donald Trump had a 'message of enthusiasm' for Belgium on Wednesday. That said Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel after a 'warm and respectful' meeting of over an hour with the American president in the royal palace in Brussels.
NATO becomes a member of the coalition fighting in Syria and Iraq against the terrorist movement IS. That decided the 28 member states on Wednesday. The decision will be ratified on Thursday at the NATO summit in Brussels by government leaders, reported diplomats involved.
Donald Trump and his entourage arrived in Brussels on Wednesday afternoon. The Air Force One landed at the national airport at Brussels around 16:00. Prior to his trip to the city with the armored vehicle 'The Beast', important traffic routes have been closed. The police are in attendance.
The attack in Manchester shows how important it is to co-exist in the fight against terrorism. That said NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg Wednesday, one day before the summit of the 28 NATO Member States in Brussels. The Norwegian expects that all leaders will somehow say something about the 'barbaric attack' on children.
The Trump government budget proposal puts the knife back in US spending abroad. Much less money is available for health programs in the world, food aid, international peacekeeping, educational and cultural exchanges and climate change management. This is evident from documents on the budget plan released on Tuesday.
In Brussels it is all the goats to cover the two-day visit of Donald Trump, who has been looking forward to excitement for months. More than 4000 police officers must ensure safety and activists in charge.
The attack in Manchester is no reason to tighten security measures for the NATO summit in Brussels on Thursday. The Belgian government's crisis center told it on Tuesday.
Leaders of the European Union express their support and compassion to the victims and relatives of the suicide bombing in Manchester. That definitely required 22 lives. Among the victims are also children.
Melania Trump, Brigitte Macron and Sophie Trudeau go together in Brussels on Thursday. The American and the fresh French first lady and the Canadian Prime Minister's wife are taken on museum visits by partners of Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg, Amélie Derbaudrenghien and Ingrid Schulerud.
