Germany’s foreign minister described Friday’s “unspeakable” White House dispute between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky as a “bad dream,” as Kyiv’s European allies sided with it.
“Yesterday evening underlined that a new age of infamy has begun,” Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock stated during a statement that was broadcast on television on Saturday.
“Many of you will have slept uneasily after seeing the unspeakable videos from the White House,” she stated. She continued, “Honestly, I did too.”
“Sadly, this was not a bad dream, but a heavy reality,” she said.
Following the controversy that resulted in Zelensky’s removal from the White House, she also called on Germany and the EU to relax their budget regulations to support Ukraine.
To allow for further assistance for Kyiv, she stated that she would “wholeheartedly push for more flexibility in the Stability and Growth Pact” of the EU as well as a “fundamental reform of the debt brake” anchored in Germany’s constitution.
According to Baerbock, such actions could help “Ukraine achieve a just peace and not a capitulation, so that it can withstand Russia’s aggression even if the US withdraws support.”
