A contact between Merkel and Biden … and this is what was agreed

German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a phone call to Joe Biden on Tuesday to congratulate him on his victory in the US presidential election.

And the German Chancellor announced that “Merkel wanted close cooperation based on trust”, during the contact with the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.

Chancellor’s spokesman Stephen Seibert said, in a brief statement, that Merkel and “the president-elect of the United States agree that transatlantic cooperation is of great importance given the many global challenges.”

Merkel also extended her congratulations to US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

The tension marked relations between Merkel and Republican President Donald Trump, who treated Germany as a scapegoat on economic and defense issues.

And the German magazine Der Spiegel previously wrote that “things could not be worse than they were with Donald Trump,” expressing confidence that Merkel “looks forward to Donald Trump leaving the White House.”

The “Nord Stream 2” gas transportation project, which Berlin is carrying out with Russia and threatens to compete with US natural gas in Europe, was the most prominent controversial dossier between Berlin and Washington during the outgoing president’s first term in office. United States, Donald Trump.