Germany's new chancellor, Merz, to meet Trump in Washington on Thursday
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on June 1, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026

Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on June 1, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026

Chancellor Friedrich Merz will meet President Trump in Washington to discuss trade and Ukraine tensions, marking his first US visit since taking office.
BERLIN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, will travel to Washington to meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, German and U.S. officials said on Saturday.
This will be Merz's first visit to the United States since taking office on May 6, and comes amid high tensions between the trans-Atlantic partners over trade and the Russian war in Ukraine.
The visit was confirmed by a German government spokesman and a White House official.
(Reporting by Andreas Rinke and Trevor Hunnicutt; Writing by Sarah Marsh; Editing by Toby Chopra)
Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, will meet with President Trump.
Chancellor Merz's visit to the United States is scheduled for Thursday.
There are high tensions between the trans-Atlantic partners over trade and the Russian war in Ukraine.
Friedrich Merz took office as Chancellor on May 6.
The visit was confirmed by a German government spokesman and a White House official.
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