The race to lead Germany is diverting through Switzerland, with a campaigning push in Davos set to showcase competing visions for how to revive Europe’s biggest economy.

Germany’s ambassador to Washington has warned internally of turbulent relations under Trump while German companies have sounded the alarm over threatened tariffs under the new U.S. administration.

The United States will remain one of Germany's closest and most indispensable allies, regardless of who the current president is, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday.

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