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European Union must break-up: Analyst

Thursday, 28 November 2019 6:41 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 28 November 2019 6:47 PM ]

(L-R) The President of the European Council Donald Tusk, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, US President Donald Trump and the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker arrive for a family photo during the G7 Summit in in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, June 8, 2018. (AFP photo)

The European Union must break-up because it is "a supranational bureaucratic organization that’s hostile to the values of all the individual European countries," says James Jatras, a former US Senate policy adviser and diplomat.

European Council President Donald Tusk has said that US President Donald Trump poses one of the biggest challenges to the EU because he is “praying” for the breakup of the bloc.

“For the first time in history, there is an American president who is openly against a united Europe. He supports Brexit and prays for the breakup of the Union,” Tusk told the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit in a recent interview.

Tusk claimed that Trump is determined to weaken the EU and said this was “perhaps the most difficult challenge” for the organization.

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Jatras said, “I really have no idea how much praying Donald Trump does at all much less for the breakup of the EU. To tell you the truth any decent person favors the breakup of the EU which is a supranational bureaucratic organization that’s hostile to the values of all the individual European countries.”

“Now even if Mr. Trump does favor the breakup of the EU I don’t know for what purpose. Perhaps he wants NATO to supersede it. But then again he has a very poor view of NATO historically. So if Mr. Tusk right and Mr. Trump doesn’t like the European Union, I think that’s very much to his credit,” he told Press TV on Thursday.

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