Steinmeier on a US election
“I suppose it has been a prolonged night for us all. America has voted, and a stress of this choosing outcome – including for us – is by no means to be underestimated. The outcome is opposite to what many people in Germany had hoped to see. But of march we accept it.
It is good that a choosing debate is over, as a approach it was conducted has left low scars. It will not be easy to reanimate them. On some-more than one arise during a campaign, we voiced my regard about how it was being conducted.
If Donald Trump unequivocally wants to be President for all Americans, as he pronounced this morning, afterwards his initial charge will be to fill in a low rifts that grown in US multitude during a choosing campaign. But a plea of traffic with and assembly a high expectations that Trump himself total will be even greater. It will not be easy to make America good again, also as regards a economy, or to emanate new jobs in this conditions and in a stream mercantile environment.
Above all, however, we wish that we will not face incomparable rifts in general politics. During a choosing campaign, Trump voiced critique not usually of Europe, though also of Germany. we consider we will have to get used to a thought that US unfamiliar process will be reduction predicted for us and we will have to get used to a thought that a US will tend to make some-more decisions on a own.
In other words, we don’t wish to fake it will be easy. Nothing will be easier. Much will be harder. But we am rarely wakeful that functioning transatlantic family are something like a substructure of a West. That is because we can't relinquish this foundation. Furthermore, there are large ties between a nation and a US that we need to say and foster. In a same approach that we Germans schooled a good understanding from a American friends in a past, we might now inspire a American friends to mount by a partnerships that have grown in a past, and so to mount by us.
We do not know how Trump will oversee a US. Many questions sojourn open. Naturally, we will find discourse in sequence to accept answers to these questions. But in my view, currently is also an arise to remind ourselves in Germany and Europe that we can't means to concede ourselves to be thrown off march by this choosing result. We should sojourn a building of reason and we should inspire a domestic culture. What we have achieved together here in Germany – mercantile reason total with amicable shortcoming – has done us a recognized partner within Europe and beyond. And we can mount quietly to this.”
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