Anonymous ID: 85bab9 July 20, 2020, 4:24 p.m. No.10026420   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6638

16:37 GMT

Governors of 4 German states urge US Congress to stop Trump’s troop withdrawal plan

The governors of the four German states that are home to critical US military facilities have urged members of US Congress to try andforce President Donald Trump to back down

from plans to withdraw more than a quarter of the American troops from the country, AP said.

 

The heads of Bavaria, Hesse, Baden-Wurttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate reportedly said in a letter that US facilities like the Grafenwoehr training area, the Ramstein and Spangdahlem airbases, the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center hospital and the headquarters of US European Command “form the backbone of the US presence in Europe and NATO’s ability to act.”

 

The US currently has about 34,500 troops in Germany, but Trump said in June that he had ordered this number to be reduced to 25,000.

 

https://www.rt.com/newsline/495309-german-states-us-congress/

Anonymous ID: 85bab9 July 20, 2020, 4:27 p.m. No.10026463   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6511

Britain ‘won’t give up rights as independent state’ in Brexit talks – PM’s spokesman

 

20 Jul, 2020 12:29 / Updated 8 hours ago

 

Britain will continue to engage constructively with the European Union in talks on a future relationship, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday.

 

However, “our position on our sovereignty, laws and fisheries is clear: we will not give up our rights as an independent state,” Reuters quoted the spokesman as saying.

 

“We … will work hard to reach the broad outline of an agreement, but, as we have been clear all along, we are not asking for a special, bespoke or unique deal,” the PM’s representative said.

 

https://www.rt.com/newsline/495297-britain-independent-state-brexit/