German chancellor Angela Merkel has admitted that the New World Order is ‘under threat’ due to the rise of Trump and other populist leaders.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the German leader decried the rise in protectionism and the rejection of globalism currently sweeping across Europe and the U.S.
“Frankly speaking, the country I have the honor to represent and where I am chancellor has difficulties. And polarization is something that we see in our country as well, which we haven’t had for decades,” Merkel said.
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Cnbc.com reports: She attributed increasing populism and polarization to both the euro zone crisis and migration crisis seen in Europe over the last few years following an influx of refugees, but said Germany would not shrink from the world stage.
“Germany wishes to be a country that lends its contribution in the future to solve the problems of the world together, we think that shutting ourselves off and isolating ourselves will not lead us into a good future. Protectionism is not the proper answer,” she said.
Merkel is just the latest leader at Davos to criticize a protectionist and isolationist stance towards the world’s problems. Such comments appear to be directed towards President Donald Trump who has adopted an “America First” stance in his foreign and economic policies.
‘Not learned the lessons from history’
In contrast, Merkel said the answer to the world’s problems was to see multilateral solutions instead of a “unilateral, protectionist course” of action.
At the start of her address, Merkel referenced both world wars in the 20th century, saying that the “political actors involved had almost sleepwalked into a horrendous situation.” She said there was a danger that the world had not learned the lessons from history.
She said the foundation of the United Nations (UN) was a multilateral and cooperative solution that was borne out of World War II, adding that a multilateral response helped to resolve the global financial crisis of 2008-2009.
German coalition talks
Merkel’s comments come amid continued speculation over Germany, and indeed Merkel’s, political future after months of negotiations aimed at forming a coalition government. This after no one party gained a majority in last September’s election.
Merkel’s conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) first attempted to form a coalition with the Green party and pro-business Free Democratic Party (FDP), but it failed after the parties couldn’t agree on various policies ranging from immigration to euro zone integration.
With no prospect of an alliance, Merkel’s coalition partner in several former governments, the Social Democratic party (SPD) led by Martin Schulz, did a U-turn on an earlier pledge to voters not to go into government with the CDU-CSU again and began talks with Merkel’s conservative alliance in January.
The decision could backfire on the SPD which performed badly in the last election due to its supporters’ disapproval of its alliance with the CDU-CSU. As such, the SPD is likely to extract many concessions from the CDU-CSU during upcoming negotiations in return for its support in government.
There is also doubt over whether Merkel, known as “Mutti” (mother) in Germany, will see out the whole of what will be her fourth term as chancellor and there is speculation on who her successor might be.
Merkel said Wednesday that she would continue to hold talks aimed at forming a government “as quickly as possible.” Speaking on Germany’s economy, she said it had enjoyed 11 years of consecutive growth but needed to modernize and make more progress in terms of digitization.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
And Germany is under assault because of Merkel.
STHU you Bolshevik pig Merkel, no one wants your Progressive ideology or your Globalism!
well said….. somebody push the old slut under a fucking bus ffs…
and hopefully real soon
…and the New World Order will also require a Military State to carry on normal operations once each country or nations culture is undermined and outlawed! MTWGA!
Merkel, known as Mutti (Mother)? Its a Mother of what? The He She Beast is childless so if the dumbed down German people refer to this imposter as a Mother, then they must mean Mother Fakir?
yeah “muddha fukka” that’s who she is
Mother of the islamist muslim invading filth
Then put (more of) your money where your mouth has been…
Du hast nichts gesehen, Verräter. Warte einfach…