“You imagine in issues like we’re not going to frack, we’re not going to take fossil gas, we’re not going to do issues which might be going to be robust, whether or not you prefer it or not,” Trump stated. “Germany tried that, and inside one 12 months, they had been again to constructing regular vitality crops.”
The day after the controversy, Germany’s overseas workplace put out a press release asserting that “Germany’s vitality system is absolutely operational, with greater than 50 p.c renewables.” It added that the nation was shutting down, not constructing, coal and nuclear crops.
“If my nation is being introduced as one thing which is simply incorrect, then it’s a duty of the overseas workplace to say: Sorry, however this isn’t how the scenario in our nation is,” Baerbock informed Bloomberg.
The German authorities has been strolling an ungainly diplomatic tightrope since Trump emerged because the frontrunner within the U.S. presidential race after which official candidate for the Republican Occasion within the November elections. Over time, Trump has repeatedly criticized Berlin for its dependence on Russian gasoline and skimping on NATO-mandated protection spending will increase, one thing Berlin has sought — slowly — to treatment.