The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is confident he and the US president-elect, Donald Trump, will be able to develop a “joint strategy” for Ukraine after speaking to him on the phone, he said in an interview published on Saturday. “I am confident that we can develop a joint strategy for Ukraine. My guiding principle remains that nothing can be decided without giving the Ukrainian people a say,” Scholz told the Funke media group. He added he had spoken with the future US president “in detail” and that his team was in a direct exchange with Trump’s security advisers. “What is