World's most trusted Merkel, surprising results for Trump and Putin

Europeans are more likely to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as China's Xi Jinping are the most needed to do the right thing about world affairs, than American President Donald Trump, according to a survey released Tuesday.

Meanwhile, according to the euroenea.com, it sends out Telegrafi, most respondents in most of the seven countries surveyed by the US-based Research Centre, believe in German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron.

But the “Security Conference in Munich”, which drew conclusions, warned that the European Union is “particularly ill prepared” for what is described as a new “pot of the power's strong competition”.

Merkel, the most trusted Macro

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was forced by domestic political forces to leave her party leadership late last year and vowed not to run for her country's top seat again, was found to be the most trusted to do the right thing, among the seven world leaders.

It is closely followed by Macron, whose inner popularity has also marked a recent decline, as he tries to keep the movement of “jelkits” under control.

Both were valued as the right people to do the right thing from most respondents in any country surveyed Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United States ruled out Russia.

However, according to the euro, it is interesting that respondents in France and Germany preferred to put their trust in the leader of the other country.

However, while most Americans trust two European leaders, French and German respondents did not do so for the American leader.

In fact, they were less likely to believe that US President Donald Trump would do the right thing, with only 10% of Germans and 9% of the French population trusting him.

Instead, between two and three times as many believed Putin and Jinping would do the right thing about world affairs.

Other Visible Results

Trump was also the only leader who did not have most of his country's citizens to trust him, with about 48%.

On the other side of the world, 81% of Russians trust their leader in the highest registered level.

EU is badly prepared “”

The report was released before the Security Conference in Munich, which deals with international security policy.

This year's event, which begins Friday, comes after both the US and Russia announced their plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Forces Treaty, which called for the removal of nuclear missiles at a distance of 500 to 5,000km from European soil.

Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Munich Security Conference, said in the report that a new era of high power competition is under way between the United States, China and Russia”.

The report warns that the European Union is the particularly bad “prepared” for a new “poque”. /Telegraphy/