Germany’s Foreign Minister Just Proposed a Way to Skirt U.S. Sanctions
It's not clear Angela Merkel agrees—but she’s also worried about America.
German officials agree something must be done about America; they just can’t seem to agree on what.
Consider Foreign Minister Heiko Maas’s op-ed in Handensblatt, the German business newspaper, in which he said Europe and the U.S. “have been drifting apart for years” and urged Europe to “assume our equal share of responsibility” in order to “form a counterweight when the U.S. crosses the line,” pull “our weight when America retreats … [and] start a new conversation.”Among his bolder suggestions on how to do this: an independent system of financial transactions that would protect European companies seeking
