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The article criticizes the foreign and European policy decisions of German chancellor Angela Merkel. A February 7, 2012 speech given by Merkel in Berlin, Germany regarding the future of the European Union is analyzed, political and military relations between Germany and France, Great Britain, and the U.S. are examined, and comments regarding German foreign policy expressed by Merkel at a July 18, 2014 speech are discussed.

The article offers information on the trade in the combined zones of U.S. and Great Britain in Germany.

The article focuses on the emphasis of the U.S. military government officials in Germany on merging German economic activities in the U.S. and British occupation areas in 1946. The government hopes that the move could revive business activity in western Germany and boost trade with nearby countries. It also calls for delivery of 8,000 tons of wool by British to German textile mills in the U.S. zone. But it is said that Great Britain wants higher or lower than the 25% of manufactured goods to be exported to countries such as Sweden and Denmark.