A tale of two handshakes — why France’s Macron works well with Trump and Germany’s Merkel doesn’t

BERLIN — Ever since Donald Trump became president, European leaders have sought to read his mind on what he thinks about the old continent. While thousands of policy papers have been produced in the process, two handshakes may be more telling. The first one never happened. When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the Oval Office last March, a visibly unenthusiastic […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2018/04/24/a-tale-of-two-handshakes-why-frances-macron-works-well-with-trump-and-germanys-merkel-doesnt/