Angela Merkel

As the Hamburg G20 wraps up its second day, the main event has no doubt been the much anticipated first tete-a-tete between Russian president Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump.
But while Trump clearly showed great respect for Putin, he apparently has much less regard for Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Just prior to the start of a plenary session with all the G20 leaders, Trump struck up a conversation Brazil’s president Michel Temer, asking “How’s Brazil doing?”

Anti-capitalist and anti-globalist protesters, by the thousands, have greeted world leaders and their entourage in Hamburg, Germany, for the G20 summit. About 15,000 demonstrated on Thursday, July 6, 2017, and the riot police cracked down on them with water cannons set on armored vehicles.

...and now, as we predicted some months ago, it's Italeave:
Italy Openly Discussing Euro Exit
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Putin will meet with Trump amid heightened tensions over Syria and the US election hacking controversy in the US [Xinhua]
The Kremlin on Tuesday confirmed that a high level meaning between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump would indeed take place on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg Germany this Friday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel had an easy time dealing with former POTUS Barack Obama.
Both Merkel and Obama were devout neo-liberal globalists, working on behalf of the deep state and the billionaire elite class.
Merkel’s relationship with current POTUS Trump is much different. Trump is no push over like Obama.
The current US President has blasted Germany for not living up to its NATO contribution, as well as pressing for trade equity between the two nations when it comes to automobile exports.

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As was universally predicted, the European Council meeting last week ended with a decision to extend the sectoral sanctions which were imposed on Russia in July 2014 for a further 6 months.

After a tumultuous week which brought a number of nasty shocks and alarms, including the shooting down of a Syrian jet by the United States military in Syria, spiraling tensions, and fears of direct US-Russian confrontation in the Middle East, on Wednesday evening yet another horror story jumped off the screen and out of the evening news on German public radio to slap me in the face with the full force of its repellent vulgarity.

A few days ago I blogged (finally!) about my long-held suspicions that the USA was waging some sort of quiet economic warfare against Germany.…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive for talks at Putin’s residence in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. (AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office has issued a statement expressing concern about the US Senate’s vote to impose new sanctions on Russia, warning that they are prepared to retaliate if the sanctions end up harming German companies.

Shortly after the joint statement of the German and Austrian foreign ministers angrily denouncing the new sanctions against Russia voted on by the US Senate, Angela Merkel has added her voice to the protest and is making her opposition to the latest sanctions clear.
In her usual Sphinx like way Merkel avoided making a statement herself.  However her views have been made known by her spokesman Steffen Seibert in a briefing earlier today