Germany’s Foreign Minister: When the U.S. ‘Crosses the Line,’ Europe Must Act

Europe should scale up military spending in order to act as a counterpoint to an unpredictable and unreliable United States, the German foreign minister said in an op-ed Wednesday, an unusually forthright criticism of U.S. foreign policy by a senior political figure in Europe.

In the German newspaper Handelsblatt entitled "A New World Order," Heiko Maas said that Europe and the U.S. have been drifting apart for years.