“Whether we like it or not, we will remain dependent on the United States of America for a long time,” Merz said at a business conference in Berlin.
In the end, the 45-minute-long meeting belonged to the “peaceful” category. Trump told Merz, “I’m friends with you”, and they appeared to bond over a shared dislike of Angela Merkel, the former chancellor and Merz’s political rival.
I wonder in what ways he means dependence, because in a lot of ways we are getting less dependent on US but there are a few things we can’t do ourselves yet and it will take time to get it done. I hope he is saying we will have to rely on the US to appease Trump, knowing we should move away ASAP instead of him actually believing it. I’m afraid it is the latter.
My guess is financial services, given his past in blackrock
London and Paris can probably handle European financial services. My guess would be tech, we have no comparable chip design houses.