Michael Knigge, DW: Can Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron save the Iran nuclear deal?
During separate talks with President Donald Trump this week, Macron and Merkel will urge the US to stick to the Iran nuclear deal. In an interview with Fox News, the French leader warned there is no "Plan B."
When French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel meet President Donald Trump in the White House within days of each other, it will represent the most high profile European push yet to try to convince him to remain in the Iran nuclear accord, which he has repeatedly branded as the "worst deal ever."
The Franco-German charm offensive is certainly the most visible effort to prevent the Trump administration from pulling out of the deal which was signed in 2015. But it is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 23, 2018
Is Iran really a nuclear threat? -- Mersiha Gadzo, Al Jazeera
Iran's Futile Gesture Mirrors Venezuela's Economic Idiocy -- Simon Constable, Forbes
How Mike Pompeo Stole the North Korea Show -- Michael Fuchs & Abby Bard, National Interest
Why a Trump-Kim Deal Has a Good Shot -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Erdoğan tries to fix his election -- Akram Belkaïd, Le Monde Diplomatique
Syrian opposition says U.S. cannot afford to leave Syria yet -- Sarah Dadouch, Reuters
Remembering Syria Before the War -- Caroline Kitchener and Karen Yuan, The Atlantic
Israel, Palestinians return to conflicting narratives -- Uri Savir, Al-Monitor
Have China-Australia ties reached a new low? -- Charli Shield, DW
How China Is Buying Its Way Into Europe -- Andre Tartar, Mira Rojanasakul and Jeremy Scott Diamond, Bloomberg
Merkel's Final Act -- Philipp Rotmann, National Interest
Crossing Divides: Europe 'more split' than decade ago -- Valeria Perasso, BBC
Armenia's Peaceful Revolution Is a Lesson for Putin -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
The Foreign Leaders Trump Favors -- Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic
CIA Releases Morell Memo Clearing Haspel on Destroyed Tapes -- The Cipher Brief
Is this the way to a peaceful world? -- John Lloyd, Reuters
