Economics
Merkel Rejects Trump Claims That German Cars Are Threat
- South Carolina has bigger BMW plant than Bavaria, Merkel says
- German leader cites Trump views on autos as security threat
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Chancellor Angela Merkel took President Donald Trump to task before an audience of senior security officials in Munich, calling his administration’s suggestion that European autos are a threat to U.S. national security a “shock.”
In a pointed defense of multilateral institutions ahead of a speech by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence at the Munich Security Conference, the German leader called for global trade and cooperation. The biggest BMW plant is in South Carolina, she said, not in the carmaker’s homeland of Bavaria in southern Germany.