German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has urged U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday to “stay with” Europeans in supporting Ukraine.
At an international conference in Rome, Merz offered a message “to Washington DC and to President Donald Trump: stay with us and stay with the Europeans, we are on the same page and we are looking for a stable political order in this world.” He added a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying: “We will not give up” in resisting his campaign against Ukraine.
Merz said the EU’s support for Kyiv was “unwavering,” and noted it was preparing a new package of sanctions against Russia. “There is only one member state missing to agree on that. I urgently ask Slovakia and its prime minister to give up the resistance,” he said.
