German foreign minister on Trump: 'Numerous things are disturbing us

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel says it's an "unequivocal period" for US-European relations.

While he's "hopeful" about working with President Trump, "as a matter of fact, numerous things are disturbing us," Gabriel said Tuesday in Berlin.

"We ought not just react to messages or tweets, we ought to ask what is our part" in proactively forming arrangement, said Gabriel at the German-American Conference, a meeting of US and German government and business pioneers.

As Germany's top representative, Gabriel is rising as somebody willing to face Trump on the world stage. He stood out as truly newsworthy as of late to call Ivanka Trump's visit to Germany "nepotism." On Wednesday, Gabriel is set to meet with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington DC.

The Trump Administration has made it clear that it supposes Germany ought to spend significantly more cash on its military. Tillerson says Germany can bear to spend no less than 2% of its $3.5 trillion GDP on protection. Right now, Germany spends more like 1%.

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Gabriel has over and again rejected the 2% objective as not one or the other "reachable nor alluring." But he said for this present week that "Europe must grow hard power" in the event that it will keep up a top position of authority on the world stage close by the US and China.

He's likewise not cheerful about the Trump Administration's dangers to erect exchange obstructions and to haul out of the Paris Agreement on environmental change and the Iran atomic arrangement.

"It's in the long haul enthusiasm of all of humankind that the US doesn't stop" the Paris Agreement, Gabriel said on the eve of his excursion to the US.

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Gabriel trusts the greatest test today is persuading individuals outside of the elites that globalization is working.

"We need to bring those parts of our social orders in contact that don't meet routinely in the long standing customer relax in Frankfurt," Gabriel said at the gathering, which was facilitated by the Atlantik-Brucke and the American Council on Germany.

A legal counselor in Boston has more in like manner today with a legal advisor in London or Berlin than he or she does with a rancher in Iowa, Gabriel contended. He says we can't disregard the ranchers.

"This is our test on the off chance that we don't need our relations to dissolve significantly more," Gabriel told the jam in Berlin.