Outgoing US president, Barack Obama, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, have made an appeal for continued cooperation between the US and the European Union on climate change, anti-terror measures as well as a transatlantic trade deal during Donald Trump’s presidency. The Paris climate agreement, the article says, “provides the world with a framework for the joint protection of our planet”. The article argues that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would “without a question” benefit American and German employers, employees, consumers as well as farmers. The German chancellor has been one of the key architect behind the trade treaty, which both leaders know will not be concluded before Obama leaves office. One German official told the Guardian ahead of Obama’s Berlin trip that hopes for a revival of the deal under Trump were “not realistic”.

Source: The Guardian November 16, 2016 20:12 UTC