German of the day: Gestrandet

That means stranded.

In US-Amerika itself? Oh, the horror.

Stranded in the U.S.: Here’s Why the Klingbeil Flight Couldn’t Take Off – The mystery surrounding the malfunctioning government plane belonging to Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (48, SPD) has been solved: The Airbus A350, which left the minister stranded in the U.S., had damage to one of its doors. That was reason enough to ground the aircraft for the time being.

German of the day: Sich auflösen

That means to disintegrate.

Klingbeil: Transatlantic relations are currently disintegrating – Federal Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Klingbeil has described relations with the US as severely damaged.

At an event held by the German Institute for Economic Research, the SPD leader said that transatlantic relations as we know them are currently disintegrating. Klingbeil referred to the US military intervention against Venezuela, the conflict over Greenland, and the US government’s new national security strategy. The Trump administration is making it clear that it wants to dominate the Western Hemisphere and is increasingly turning away from Europe politically and culturally, Klingbeil said.

“Speak loudly and carry a little stick…”

“You will go far.” Not.

Germany urges tough EU response if ‘fair deal’ cannot be reached on US tariffs – Europe’s biggest economy on Sunday urged a tough EU response if the bloc is unable to strike a “fair deal” with the United States over trade tariffs. On Saturday, US President Donald Trump threatened to slap the European Union with 30 percent tariffs. “We won’t accept just anything,” Lars Klingbeil, finance minister of Europe’s biggest economy, told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.