As Angela Merkel flies to Washington for her first meeting with Donald Trump, the US president’s critics may be hoping the German chancellor will give her US counterpart a lecture on the folly of borders and the values of a free press. They are likely to be disappointed.Although Merkel “explained” the Geneva convention to Trump in their first phone call after his inauguration, she is expected to raise the issue of refugees and migration only as part of a wider discussion of the volatile political situation in north Africa when she meets the US president at the White House on Friday, rescheduled from Tuesday due to the snowstorm that hit the eastern US this week.“We’ve heard that the president’s favourite pastime is not being lectured,” said one senior German adviser. (the guardian)…[+]