Top US Diplomat Calls EU Agenda ‘Utterly Adverse to US Interest’

The EU is pursuing an agenda “utterly adverse to the US” and pursuing “civilizational suicide,” the American Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said on Saturday, doubling down on the Trump administration’s harsh criticism of Europe in its “National Security Strategy.”

In the document, released on Thursday, Washington said Europe faced a “stark prospect of civilizational erasure,” due to the EU’s undermining “political liberty and sovereignty,” leading to a “loss of national identity.”

Landau reiterated those warnings on Saturday. While European countries insist on transatlantic cooperation, he said in a post on social media, the EU is pursuing a political agenda that threatens US security through “censorship, economic suicide/climate fanaticism, open borders, disdain for national sovereignty/promotion of multilateral governance and taxation,” as well as support for “Communist Cuba.”

According to Landau, European countries should stop following the “unelected, undemocratic, and unrepresentative bureaucracy in Brussels.”

The top diplomat Kaja Kallas was the only EU leader to reply to the new US Security Strategy. The US “is still our biggest ally,” she said on Saturday at the annual conference of the Doha Forum.

“Of course, there’s a lot of criticism, but I think some of it is also true,” she added.

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According to the Italian minister of Defence Guido Crosetto, the US has just made explicit something that has been evident for years.

“The US is engaged in an increasingly difficult, complex and tough competition with China,” he said on social media. “Trump has simply made it clear that the EU is of little or no use to him in this competition.”

The relation between the EU and US is unique, but it is the EU that decides on its own rules, a Commission spokesperson said on Saturday evening.

“When it comes to decisions relating to the European Union, they are taken by the European Union, for the European Union, including those relating to our regulatory autonomy, protection of free speech and the rules-based international order,” the spokesperson said.

See the original of this report by Angelo Di Mambro for Euractiv here.