The EU is pursuing an agenda “completely antagonistic to the US” and pursuing “civilisational suicide”, the American Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau stated on Saturday, doubling down on the Trump administration’s harsh criticism of Europe in its “National Security Strategy”.
In the doc, launched on Thursday, Washington stated Europe confronted a “stark prospect of civilisational erasure”, because of the EU’s undermining “political liberty and sovereignty”, resulting in a “lack of nationwide id”.
Landau reiterated these warnings on Saturday. While European nations insist on transatlantic cooperation, he stated in a put up on social media, the EU is pursuing a political agenda that threatens US safety by “censorship, financial suicide/local weather fanaticism, open borders, disdain for nationwide sovereignty/promotion of multilateral governance and taxation,” in addition to assist for “Communist Cuba”.
According to Landau, European nations ought to cease following the “unelected, undemocratic, and unrepresentative forms in Brussels.”
The high diplomat Kaja Kallas was the one EU chief to answer to the brand new US Security Strategy. The US “remains to be our largest ally,” she stated on Saturday on the annual convention of the Doha Forum.
“Of course, there’s numerous criticism, however I feel a few of additionally it is true,” she added.
According to the Italian minister of Defence Guido Crosetto, the US has simply made express one thing that has been evident for years.
“The US is engaged in an more and more troublesome, complicated and difficult competitors with China,” he stated on social media. “Trump has merely made it clear that the EU is of little or no use to him on this competitors.”
The relation between the EU and US is exclusive, however it’s the EU that decides by itself guidelines, a Commission spokesperson stated on Saturday night.
“When it involves choices referring to the European Union, they’re taken by the European Union, for the European Union, together with these referring to our regulatory autonomy, safety of free speech and the rules-based worldwide order,” the spokesperson stated.
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