Merkel: Europe can no longer trust US and Britain

DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. May 28, 2017, 6:00 PM (IDT)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared Sunday that Europe “must take its fate into its own hands” now that it is faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency. She spoke two days after 28 NATO leaders held a summit in Brussels, during which the US president said that most members were not paying their fair share towards the alliance’s upkeep. “The times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out. I’ve experienced that in the last few days,” Merkel told a crowd at an election rally in Munich, southern Germany.

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