{"id":278112,"date":"2025-07-20T19:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278112\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T19:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:27:10","slug":"german-chancellors-diplomacy-shifts-trumps-view-on-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278112\/","title":{"rendered":"German chancellor&#8217;s diplomacy shifts Trump&#8217;s view on Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friedrich Merz. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul believes that Chancellor Friedrich Merz played a major role in shifting US President Donald Trump\u2019s position regarding Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: Wadephul in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bild.de\/politik\/inland\/aussenminister-im-bild-interview-sprengen-trumps-zoelle-europa-6877adcb9ecd0f747df6649b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bild<\/a>, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurointegration.com.ua\/news\/2025\/07\/20\/7216294\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Pravda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Details<\/strong>: When asked about the role Friedrich Merz played in Trump\u2019s change of stance on Putin, the German minister replied, &#8220;Friedrich Merz played a big role in this because, from the very beginning, he made it clear that he supports Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that Merz emphasised this during his Oval Office visit and continued to reinforce this stance during face-to-face talks at the G7 summit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Friedrich Merz called Donald Trump and said that US help is needed now. We can be glad that the German chancellor has established such a reasonable relationship with the US president and that Germany\u2019s voice is being heard again in Washington,&#8221; the German foreign minister said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friedrich Merz. Photo: Getty Images German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul believes that Chancellor Friedrich Merz played a major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,2046,1757],"class_list":{"0":"post-278112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-putin","12":"tag-trump"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114887212737177114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}