US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet on Tuesday. Photo: Saul Loeb, Clemens Bilan/AFPEurope's most powerful leader, Angela Merkel, meets for the first time on Tuesday America's flamboyant President Donald Trump, whose arrival in the White House has sent shockwaves across the Atlantic. While former US president Barack Obama had labelled Merkel his "closest international partner", there has been little known contact between the German leader and Trump since he took office. The reserved German leader herself underlined that she is travelling to Washington not only as Germany's leader, but also as an envoy of the EU. A senior administration official skirted a question on Trump's criticism of Merkel over her stance on refugees, saying "those are German government decisions".

Source: The Local March 12, 2017 08:26 UTC