Before the inauguration of the future US President Donald Trump, the CSU announced a reorientation of German foreign policy and a close cooperation with the new US administration, if the Union wins the federal election on February 23.
“We want to remain an unchanged, closer, and more trustworthy ally of the USA and continue to strengthen the transatlantic partnership” it says in a paper for the CSU’s parliamentary group retreat at the Seeon monastery in Upper Bavaria, reported by the “Rheinische Post” in its Friday edition. “We will end the ideological and instructional tone of the left-green foreign policy.”
With Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the USA and its view of the world will change significantly. “We will fulfill our alliance commitments within the framework of NATO agreements” the CSU said. In the same measure, one will define one’s own interests in the exchange with the new US government, “strengthen the decision-making capacity in the EU in foreign and security policy, and continue to cooperate closely in the mutual interest of the USA and Germany, particularly in trade and security policy issues.