“German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the era of ‘unconditional’ ties between the U.S. and Europe built since World War II are over, at least for now, the latest pronouncement of a breakdown in relations under Donald Trump’s presidency,” Bloomberg reports.Said Merz: “This era of unconditional transatlantic friendship is probably over for the foreseeable future. On the other side of the Atlantic, we are seeing a change in political attitudes, a change in the assessment of the transatlantic alliance, which we might not have thought possible.”