Merkel and Macron Push for Return to Pre-Trump Cooperation
- German chancellor says isolationism failed in the pandemic
- International cooperation needed on digital tax, antitrust
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The leaders of Germany and France separately called for governments to work more closely together, signaling their hope that the end of Donald Trump’s four-year term in the U.S. will herald the return of transatlantic collaboration.
A week after Joe Biden’s inauguration, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron used virtual addresses to the World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda to talk up the value of international cooperation and to push for coordinated action on issues ranging from digital taxation to trade and climate change.