U.S. President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Paris in November 2018 | François Mori/AFP via Getty Images Americans and Germans can’t agree on state of relationship: survey More than 70 percent of Germans said relationship with US was bad.

Angela Merkel and Donald Trump don't get along, and it seems they aren't the only Germans and Americans to have a strained relationship.

According to a new study, seven-in-ten Americans said the relationship between the two countries was good, while 73 percent in Germany said the relationship was bad. That's a big jump on the German side from 2017, when 56 percent said the relationship was bad.

The study, carried out by Pew Research Center in the U.S. and by Körber-Stiftung in Germany, also found major differences when it comes to cooperation between the two sides. Seventy percent of Americans said the U.S. should cooperate more with Germany, but only 41 percent of Germans said Germany should cooperate more with the U.S.

When it comes to working with others, respondents in both countries backed greater cooperation with France, the United Kingdom and China. But there was a split over Russia: 58 percent of Americans wanted to cooperate less with Moscow, while 69 percent of Germans wanted more cooperation.

Perhaps the biggest source of conflict between Merkel and Trump has been defense spending, with the U.S. president accusing Berlin of not paying enough toward international security. According to the survey, 39 percent of Americans said European allies should increase spending on defense (down from 45 percent in 2017), while 43 percent of Germans said their country should increase defense spending (up from 32 percent in 2017).

However, most Germans (72 percent) said they want to be more independent from the U.S. when it comes to foreign policy, while 24 percent want it to remain as close to the U.S. as it has been of late. In the U.S., 65 percent want to remain close to Europe, rather than be more independent on foreign policy (30 percent).

Views on NATO were very similar. Nearly identical percentages of Americans (64 percent) and Germans (63 percent) had favorable views of the organization.

Americans and Germans have different views on tariffs. In June, the Trump administration introduced tariffs on European steel and aluminum, resulting in the EU bringing in its own tariffs on American goods. In the survey, 51 percent of Americans opposed the initial tariffs (with 44 percent in favor). In Germany, 78 percent supported increasing tariffs on imported U.S. products in response to American tariffs on German goods.