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Trump-Zelensky row a ‘manufactured escalation’, says Merz
A clash between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House was a “manufactured escalation”, Germany’s next chancellor Friedrich Merz has said.
“It was not a spontaneous reaction to interventions by Zelensky, but obviously a manufactured escalation in this meeting in the Oval Office,” Mr Merz told a news conference in Hamburg.
Mr Merz, who is seeking to form a coalition after his conservatives won a snap election last month, said that Europe was now under pressure to act quickly.
“We must now show that we are in a position to act independently in Europe,” he said.