‘Weak Europeans?’ – Merz Sidesteps Trump Ukraine Claim as EU Moves Toward Sanctions on X

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz avoided directly answering a question on whether Trump’s recent remarks implied Europeans had become “weak,” as the former U.S. president suggested Ukraine should hold elections despite the ongoing war. The exchange comes while the EU intensifies pressure on Elon Musk’s platform X, warning of possible sanctions over compliance disputes. This video breaks down the political tension, Merz’s calculated response, Trump’s comments, and the broader EU-U.S. tech friction.

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00:00He was first in May of this year in Armenia.

00:05And if I could, maybe just to Ukraine.

00:08US President Donald Trump said in an interview,

00:11that Ukraine should...

00:13Also, the time should be now,

00:15Präsidentschaftswahlen through.

00:17How do you see that?

00:18And maybe you could also say a few words to the Treffen in London.

00:21Because it is still not clear,

00:23what is in the plan and what was not now.

00:26Thank you and sorry for the long question.

00:28Thank you very much.

00:30Thank you very much.

00:32And what it will be,

00:34that we have to develop in the next time together.

00:38But I think it is now a very great,

00:40a very great chance for a European journey from Armenia.

00:45The conversations about the Ukraine dauern an.

00:48You know that I was yesterday in London,

00:52to be together with Prime Minister Stama and President Macron

00:57also President Zelensky to speak and also

01:01about the further process of the peace process.

01:05And with him to vote.

01:07It will now be done with the foreign government

01:09and the other discussions with the Russian side.

01:11And in the next days in the next time

01:14we will be done with the US government.

01:17And then there will be other discussions,

01:19and other discussions with the Russian side.

01:23I will always say that this war,

01:25that this war in a few minutes,

01:28could only be decided by Russia in a few minutes.

01:31This war is not going from Ukraine, but the war is carried out from Russia,

01:37with unremembered, sometimes even even more brutalism against the civil society.

01:42We all have a high interest in this so quickly as possible to end.

01:46If the time is ready for the time, that will be possible only in the next few days, maybe in the next few weeks.

01:51The U.S. President has united the EU-Kommission against this platform X and warned the European Union,

02:05on the way of trafficking, and at the same time, the European Union as weak.

02:10Can you comment that please?

02:12What does the American government mean?

02:18I have the word of the American president of the American president of the United States of America

02:21of course, of course.

02:24I would say that so that so, as the European countries in the United States have in the United States

02:29the decisions that have been made to be followed and are gegebenenfalls with very drakeling

02:36belegt werden.

02:38Also, amerikanische Unternehmen in Europa haben die hier

02:41geltenden Regeln zu akzeptieren.

02:44Wenn sie sich daran nicht halten, dann gibt es natürlich auch in

02:49Deutschland und in Europa Möglichkeiten der Sanktionierung.

02:52Dagegen ist der Rechtsweg eröffnet.

02:55Das gilt in einem Rechtsstaat und das gilt auch in einer

02:58Rechtsgemeinschaft wie der Europäischen Union für alle

03:01Unternehmen, nicht nur für europäische, sondern auch für

03:04amerikanische und alle weiteren.

03:06Das ist der Rechtsrahmen, das ist die Rechtsordnung, in der wir uns

03:09hier in Europa bewegen und das gilt für alle Unternehmen

03:13uneingeschränkt und gleichermaßen.

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