Show Notes
On this episode of Roundtable, we look at the feud between Friedrich Merz and President Trump after the German Chancellor said America was being "humiliated" by Iran.
In response President Trump has announced the removal of 5,000 US troops from Germany and threatened to impose extra tariffs on EU car exports.
After a year in power, Merz is struggling to revive his country’s stalling economy and his popularity is declining with the country's far right party, the AfD is surging in the polls.
So can Merz turn it around - or is the German economy - and his own fortune - about to go from bad to worse.
Joining Enda Brady to discuss:
Frank-Christian Hansel, Member of the AfD for Berlin parliament
John Kampfner, author and journalist.
Veronica Anghel, Assistant Politics Professor at the European University Institute.
Edward Knudsen, Doctoral Researcher of International Relations at Oxford University
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