German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the U.S. president-elect's view on NATO and criticism that allied members weren't paying their fair share has "caused astonishment." At a meeting of EU foreign ministers, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the best response to such an interview was simple — a united Europe. I do think keeping it together is not gonna be as easy as a lot of people think," Trump said in the interview. Such tariffs would make "the American auto industry worse, weaker and more expensive," Sigmar Gabriel, Germany's economy minister, told Bild. "It is clear that we are discussing this issue all the time," Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said at the EU meeting in Brussels.

Source: New York Times January 16, 2017 09:03 UTC