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Merkel stepped up her transatlantic tirade against Donald Trump as she laid into the new US President over his stance on global free trade which has seen him pledge to scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. The German leader risked further souring already fraught relations between Berlin and the new White House administration as she used her budget speech yesterday to launch a series of diplomatic barbs at the Republican. She tore into Mr Trump’s announcement that he will withdraw the US from the controversial Transatlantic Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal on his first day in office in a move which effectively killed the EU’s hopes of striking a similar pact with Washington.

EPA•GETTY Angela Merkel has launched another attack on Donald Trump

It is now widely considered that negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which Brussels has been carrying out with Barack Obama, are dead in the water. And although Mrs Merkel did not mention the billionaire tycoon by name the target of her criticism was clear, coming just weeks after she marked his election by attacking his campaign rhetoric.

EPA The German leader made the remarks in her budget speech to the Bundestag

AFP Mr Trump will pull America out of the TPP trade deal

Speaking at the Bundestag in Berlin, the German leader also railed against “populism and hatred” and said people were “worried about the stability of our usual order” after Mr Trump’s shock election win. She said: “I will tell you honestly: I am not happy that the trans-Pacific agreement now will probably not become reality. I don’t know who will benefit from that.” “I know only one thing: there will be other trade agreements, and they won’t have the standards that this agreement and the hoped-for TTIP agreement have.” In her speech Mrs Merkel also addressed the rise of anti-establishment movements like AfD and the Front National in France, admitting that the euro elite cannot take their supremacy for granted any longer. She said: “Worries about stability is increased due to what is happening around us in terms of populism, hatred, culture of debate, that we need, but it needs to remain respectful. Which is not happening anymore in many cases.” The Chancellor told voters that even if they felt unsettled that Germany was stable. She said: "I must say the people in Germnay have never had it so good."

During her speech Mrs Merkel also condemned Turkish tyrant Recept Tayyip Erdogan’s repression of civilians and journalists but resisted calls for talks on the country joining the EU to be suspended, insisting: “We will continue talking to Turkey.” The German leader is heavily reliant on Turkey to prevent a further massive influx of migrants into her country and is acutely aware of how deeply unpopular her disastrous open borders policy of last year has become. Germany has been targeted by a number of Islamist terror plots this year which have dominated the debate about immigration, and yesterday the Chancellor admitted that terrorism has "now become part of our everyday life and our cities". Mrs Merkel also admitted that Brexit had left a “heavy indentation” on the EU, saying that Brussels needs to address the concerns of citizens across the continent by making member states’ economies more competitive globally.

AFP Mrs Merkel is under intense pressure over her immigration policies

IG Today she admitted terrorism is now part of 'everyday life' for Germans

I am not happy that the trans-Pacific agreement now will probably not become reality Angela Merkel

But she was immediately attacked by opposition MPs, who accused her of fuelling the rise of the far-right Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) with her controversial immigration policies. Sahra Wagenknecht, from the left-wing party Linke, said working class communities were voting for populists in huge numbers across Europe because they have been betrayed by Mrs Merkel’s policies. And in a withering putdown to the Chancellor she said that Donald Trump was “more economically competent” and said she had pursued “fatal policies that have divided Europe and are breaking it up”. She blasted: “Should Le Pen win you will all be shocked again “If something is post-truth, it is not the emotions of the people but the lies you tell them and that there is no alternative to your policies.

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