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Americans Like the No-Drama Merkel

April 28, 2020

Americans Like the No-Drama Merkel

April 28, 2020
Karen Donfried in Die Zeit

The United States and Europe benefit immensely from transatlantic cooperation, especially in the battle against a virus that knows no borders.

Export bans of medical equipment “harm us all,” says Donfried. These measures “run contrary to the values that tie America and Europe together. We should all acknowledge that we are better off with free trade than with export bans.

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Karen Donfried

Karen Donfried


Karen Donfried is president of The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Before assuming this role in April 2014, Donfried was the special assistant to the president and senior director ...
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