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Merkel Bashes Trump’s Decision To Leave Paris Climate Change Agreement: ‘I Deplore This’

Michael Qazvini

As Germany reels from its imprudent immigration policies and consequent terrorism threats, Chancellor Angela Merkel used her international platform at the G20 summit in Hamburg to wax philosophic about climate change. With the European Union disintegrating before her eyes, Merkel chose to lecture America about what she saw as its ill-advised decision to leave the Paris Climate change agreement.

“Unfortunately — and I deplore this — the United States of America left the climate agreement, or rather announced their intention of doing this,” Merkel stated in a closing speech at the G20 summit over the weekend.

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