Home Title Index Topic Index Sources Directory News Releases Sources Calendar

Trump's EU doormats

Halimi, Serge
http://mondediplo.com/2018/06/01halimi

Publisher:  Le Monde diplomatique
Date Written:  01/06/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Pages:  2pp  
ISSN:  14786591

Resource Type:  Article

The author demontrates the need for EU members to maintain their independence and sovereignty through the treatment and demands made of EU leaders by Trump concerning deals on Iran.

Abstract: 

-----

Excerpts:

ll Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel and Boris Johnson’s entreaties and demonstrations of affection to President Donald Trump were utterly pointless. He responded by humiliating them. Now, he threatens trade and financial reprisals if they fail to break the deal their countries made with Iran three years ago. Trump has reversed the US’s position, and its allies must fall into line. Seen from Washington, the UK, France and Germany are unimportant, or anyway far less important than Saudi Arabia or Israel.

In Les Chemins de la liberté (The Roads to Freedom), Jean-Paul Sartre wrote: 'When a man admits his guilt, you always feel like hitting him, to smash what little dignity he has left.' That holds true for countries, including those of the European Union. Macron says he refuses to talk 'with a gun to [his] head]', while Merkel finds it unfortunate that Trump has made things 'even more difficult' in the Middle East. Yet neither seems able to respond with anything but whining. Europe's major business corporations feel obliged to comply with the White House, since even sending an email via a server in the US or using dollars in a transaction with Iran will make them liable to enormous fines (see Trump’s Iranian diktat, in this issue).
Sources-journalists use the sources website to find you


AlterLinks
c/o Sources


© 2025.