US threatened to withdraw troops from Germany

The U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell said: Angela merkel 's unwillingness to boost defence spending might give the United States no choice but to move American troops stationed in Germany to Poland.

US threatened to withdraw troops from Germany

MojNews-An envoy of U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Friday that Chancellor Angela merkel 's unwillingness to boost defence spending might give the United States no choice but to move American troops stationed in Germany to Poland.

The comments by Richard Grenell , the U.S. ambassador to Germany, signal Trump's impatience with Merkel's failure to raise defence spending to 2% of economic output as mandated by the NATO military alliance.

"It is offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayers continue to pay for more than 50,000 Americans in Germany but the Germans get to spend their (budget) surplus on domestic programmes," Grenell told the dpa news agency.

Germany's fiscal plans foresee the defence budget of NATO's second-largest member rising to 1.37% of output next year before falling to 1.24% in 2023.

 

Was this news helpful?
Comments sent by you will be published on the web after being approved by Moj news agency.

Messages containing slander and slander will not be published.

Add Comment