Europe can't count on US protection any more: Merkel
BLOOMBERG, REUTERS, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
May 10,2018
AACHEN (Germany) • German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe can no longer count on the United States for military protection and must "take its destiny into its own hands".
Dr Merkel's comments yesterday reprise a theme she first sounded last year in response to US President Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy and his hectoring of European Nato allies for allegedly spending too little on defence. It is her latest retort to Mr Trump, who this week withdrew the US from a nuclear accord with Iran that European powers say they will uphold.
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Mr Macron echoed the call for Europe to stand united and show greater strength, at a time when the US is going its own way in ditching the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord, as well as threatening allies with punitive trade tariffs. "If we accept that other major powers, including allies... put themselves in a situation to decide our diplomacy, security for us, and sometimes even make us run the worst risks, then we are not more sovereign and we cannot be more credible to public opinion," Mr Macron said, in a clear attack against Mr Trump's decision on Iran.
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