Germany’s Scholz criticizes US tariffs as ‘wrong’

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the European Union Council President Antonio Costa brief the media after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Mar. 12, 2025. (AP)

“We will react to them appropriately and quickly,” Scholz said

BERLIN: Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned sweeping new US steel and aluminum tariffs on Wednesday and said Germany was “studying the suggestions of the European Commission” for retaliatory measures.
“I think the decisions on tariffs by the USA are wrong and we will react to them appropriately and quickly,” Scholz told a press conference in Berlin alongside European Council chief Antonio Costa.