Exit Macron, Enter Merkel
For all his storied rapport with Trump, the French president left without securing commitments Europe wants. It’s the German chancellor’s turn to try.
Angela Merkel is in Washington on Friday. But she will not get the reception of her French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, whose U.S. visit this week was capped with a glitzy state dinner and a rousing congressional address. There will be no fanfare for the German chancellor. She is in the U.S. capital for a working visit, which lacks the pomp of a formal state visit. Nor, based on the that marked her last Washington visit in March, is she likely to display
