Obama, EU Leaders Agree to Keep Sanctions on Russian Federation

“The president emphasized that de-escalation and a diplomatic solution to the ongoing conflict are the only viable ways to end the suffering, prevent another migration crisis”, according to the White House statement.

Despite adopting a sombre tone during his sixth and last visit to Germany as USA president, Obama said he was nevertheless “cautiously optimistic about my successor and the shift from campaign mode to governance”. The president-elect’s plans for U.S.

This week, Trump and Putin agreed in a telephone conversation that U.S.

But Obama urged the parties to focus on the whole, noting that “the achievements that we have seen on this continent in contrast to a divided Europe of the previous century, are ones that remind us of how important it is that we work together”.

When it came to speaking with the first daughters about the impending Trump presidency, Obama made sure that he explained to his girls that life is complicated.

“Whoever is president and whoever is the chancellor of Germany and whoever is the leader of other European nations and other democracies around the world, they need to recognize that”, Obama said. He even said he would vote for her if he could.

Trump s shock election win has sparked fears of drastic policy upheavals as he has challenged a near 70-year-old security shield for U.S. allies under North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and vowed to withdraw from hard-fought deals on the climate and Iran s nuclear programme.

Since becoming chancellor, she’s dealt with several global crises, including the Eurozone debt crisis in 2008-09 for which she brokered compromises among fractious European Union leaders.

The Prime Minister has moved to reassure her German counterpart that preparations for Brexit remain “on track”.

“My hope is that the president-elect coming in takes a similarly constructive approach of finding areas where we cooperate with Russian Federation, where our values and interests align, but that the president-elect is also willing to stand up to Russian Federation where they are deviating from our values and worldwide norms”, Obama said Thursday, taking a subtle stab at Trump’s calls for a rapprochement with Russian Federation.

The party, now represented in 10 state parliaments, has aggressively campaigned against Merkel’s decision to welcome an estimated 890,000 migrants into Germany previous year, many of them Muslims fleeing the war-torn Middle East and Africa. Merkel cautioned on any bargains with Assad.

“We are very deferential and respectful of the fact that we already have a president of the United States, Barack Obama”, Conway told reporters. The choice of the electoral college doesn’t predicate one’s own personal choices. They’re joined by French President Francois Hollande, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and British Prime Minister Theresa May.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble earlier told the Financial Times the United Kingdom might have to continue paying into European Union budgets for more than a decade after it leaves the EU. He insisted that any deal would mean London must still pay billions into the European Union budget beyond its exit date from the bloc, perhaps stretching to 2030. I genuinely do not assume the worst, because I’ve seen the best so often.

The European Commission had “no authority” to give member states greater discretion over national spending, the minister said in Berlin on Friday. And each of us can, indeed, always elect “to keep moving it forward”.