Must-Read: Samuel Osborne: Angela Merkel says Germany can no longer rely on Donald Trump’s America

Must-Read: November 8, 2016 was indeed the end of the long twentieth century:

Samuel Osborne: Angela Merkel says Germany can no longer rely on Donald Trump’s America: “‘We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands’… http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/angela-merkel-donald-trump-germany-us-no-longer-rely-european-union-climate-change-g7-a7760486.html

…She said that “the times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, as I have experienced in the past few days.”… Trump, who has previously called global warming a hoax, came under concerted pressure from the other leaders to honour the 2015 Paris Agreement on curbing carbon emissions. Although he tweeted to say he would make a decision next week, his apparent reluctance to embrace the first legally binding global climate change deal, signed by 195 countries, clearly annoyed Ms Merkel.

“The entire discussion about climate was very difficult, if not to say very dissatisfying,” she told reporters. “There are no indications whether the United States will stay in the Paris Agreement or not.” G7 leaders went on to blame the US for the failure to reach an agreement on climate change, in an unusually frank statement which read:

The United States of America is in the process of reviewing its policies on climate change and on the Paris Agreement and thus is not in a position to join the consensus on these topics. Understanding this process, the heads of state and of government of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom and the presidents of the European Council and of the European Commission reaffirm their strong commitment to swiftly implement the Paris Agreement…