Transatlantic TakeBERLIN—As U.S. President Barack Obama today delivers the opening speech at the world’s largest industrial fair in Hannover, he will find a very different country than the one he saw upon his campaign visit in 2008. From the heights of excitement when Obama took office in 2009 to the depths of outrage when the NSA affair broke in 2013, Germany’s view of Washington today is sobered. Disappointment does not only stem from U.S. policy not developing under the Obama Administration in the way Germans may have hoped and anticipated. It is also because Europe, Germany, and the United States …read more
Obama’s Message to a Sober Germany
