First breathe a sigh of relief, then fear: After the losses in the congressional elections, could leave US President, Trump the growing pressure on him to Germany feel. This, at least, many politicians feared in Berlin.
In the congressional elections in the United States, the Republican US President Donald Trump have lost their majority in the house of representatives. The Conservatives retain control in the Senate, the second parliamentary chamber in Washington. Federal foreign Minister Heiko Maas of the SPD, said that the outcome of the election had shown the division of the United States. Thus, the United States would, however, not alone, said Maas, of the “Neue Passauer Presse”. The applicable “unfortunately, for many other Western democracies.”
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas
The foreign Minister called on the Europeans to take on more responsibility. The United States remained the most important Partner outside of Europe, but Trumps “America-First”policy have led to Washington from international treaties withdraw. That is why the European Union needs to fight off, for example when it is a matter of punitive tariffs.
Contacts to States to expand
CDU General Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is in his own words, the fact that Trump put his policy, and he will apply for re-election in 2020. The candidate for the CDU presidency in favour of the contacts to the USA below the level of the President expand, with closer relations to individual States. It’s the other level, we need to play much more was””.
SPD Leader Andrea Nahles welcomed the success of the US Democrats. “The USA are more and more versatile than the fomenting of fear, incitement against minorities, and it alone,” she explains. “The fact that the US Democrats have gained the majority in the house of representatives, is a good news for all, where cohesion and strength is no contradiction. For us Europeans, the result of this election is also: TRANS-Atlantic, but a European.”
“Driver conflict instead of conflict resolver”
The Chairman of the foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag, Norbert Röttgen, sees the US after the elections, when even more deeply divided than before. In Germany, radio Röttgen said he did not expect U.S. President Trump “because of the congressional elections makes a course correction of its policy.”
Norbert Röttgen, from the Committee on foreign Affairs
He anticipated, on the contrary, with a further polarization. You have to adjust to it, “that Trump continues its aggressive policy, internal and foreign policy,” said the CDU politician. Unfortunately, it is currently the role of the United States “to be in all areas of driver Conflict and not a conflict solver”. Therefore, the Europeans would have to go ahead now closed.
In the news-network Twitter FDP-Chef Christian Lindner stressed that the United States is a split, but a democratic Nation. The voters “are not Trump, but they are not all against Trump. The night brought no winner, but forced to cooperate. “Easier for us, it is not, because now the presidential election battle begins,” says Lindner.
Signals of hope from the United States
The parliamentary Manager of the FDP group in the Bundestag, Marco Buschmann, also said on Twitter that the United States is Germany’s most important Partner. “And if it should come back to child ratios, this is always good news for Germany and Europe”. Positive is the Chairman of the Left, Katja Kipping looks, the outcome of the elections. In your Tweet of hope from the United States writes of signals.
In the more detailed analysis of German politics-scientists. The Director of the German society for Foreign policy, Daniela Schwarzer, said in a DW Interview, the fact that the house of representatives to the Democrats, is good news. However, it would have been from the European point of view better when the Democrats had in the Senate, because that would mean “a greater control of the President by the Democrats”.
Greater pressure from the White house
Black expected that Trump is going to try, “its Agenda in the light of the results even more.” As a result, Germany could face greater pressure from the White house concerning trade before.
Political Scientist Daniela Schwarzer
“Trump was challenged by Germany in the trade and in the energy sector”. It refers to the planned and of the United States criticized Nord Stream natural gas pipeline to run from Russia through the Baltic sea to Germany.
Political analyst Michael Werz, who followed the elections for the think tank Center for American Progress in Washington, said in Germany radio that the loss of the previously Republican-dominated house of representatives to the Democrats was “a clear defeat”. “For the Republican party, this is a Problem because she has many of her fashion representatives rates lost and the Republican faction has become even more conservative than it already was.”
Role of Russian secret services
For the White house verkompli the pending studies on the possible interference of the Russian ed, also, the secret services in the presidential elections of 2016 and Trumps financial management. With a democratic majority in the house of representatives witnesses could be “the have previously rejected these investigations. You have to assume that the Democrats will pull out all the stops to put this President in the way of that.”