Politics
Merkel’s Possible Green Successor Touts Close U.S. Relationship
- Germany, U.S. have common ground in economy, environment
- Baerbock says relations with China must balance interests
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The co-leader of Germany’s Green Party, Annalena Baerbock, highlighted her party’s common ground with the U.S. government in areas ranging from human rights to climate change, drawing up her trans-Atlantic priorities in the event that she succeeds Angela Merkel as chancellor in this year’s general election.
“We as Europeans, and we as German Greens are not very far apart from the current U.S. administration”, Baerbock said on Thursday at a virtual event of the Atlantic Council. “We can say as Europeans that we don’t want products on our common market produced by forced labor,” she said in reference to China.