内容摘要：It will be auctioned in the second week of July at Bonhams.

It will be auctioned in the second week of July at Bonhams.

Subsequent contact with the AfD or Alice Weidel, she added, would be seen as a provocation by Germany."That would be DEFCON 1 for the bilateral," she said.

A collection of paintings by renowned artist Barrington Tabb are going under the hammer.Tabb, from South Gloucestershire and who past away in 2022, had a distinctive style due to an eye condition that causing blurring of his central vision."Sometimes it can improve my paintings very, very much, due to this distortion," he told the BBC in an interview in 2006. "I don't want my work to look like a camera took it. I want to give vent to the distortion as well as the emotion."

His unique style earned him a loyal following, with collectors including David Bowie and Bryan Ferry. The paintings will be auctioned at Clevedon Salerooms.Known for his textured, expressive oil paintings capturing Bristol's streets, docks, and daily life, Barrington Tabb devoted more than four decades to chronicling the spirit of the city.

The artworks are being auctioned by BBC Antiques Roadshow expert and Senior Valuer at Clevedon Salerooms Chris Yeo.

"He loved Bristol and just adored the place," said Mr Yeo.The US President also repeatedly expressed dismay with the speed of tariff negotiations with the EU. In May, he threatened to levy a 50% tariff on European goods, saying that it was "time that we play the game the way I know how to play the game".

Trump later backtracked and delayed the tariffs until 9 July, a move that his US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer characterised as having a "fire lit" under the EU.Germany is the EU's largest exporter to the US, leaving the country's businesses extremely agitated about any trade obstacles.

Merz, a 69-year-old reputed millionaire with a corporate background, may feel confident about going toe-to-toe with Trump, who often hails himself as the consummate "dealmaker".Whether the Chancellor will be able to smooth the path for EU negotiators, however, remains to be seen.