The EU’s pursuit of its inexperienced agenda and enforcement of tech guidelines in opposition to U.S. companies is undermining the transatlantic alliance, the U.S. deputy secretary of state warned.
“The nations of Europe can not look to the US for their very own safety on the similar time they affirmatively undermine the safety of the US itself via the (unelected, undemocratic, and unrepresentative) EU,” Christopher Landau mentioned on social media platform X on Saturday.
Distinguished U.S. officers criticized Brussels after the European Fee slapped X with a €120 million penalty for breaching EU transparency guidelines earlier this week. Billionaire X proprietor Elon Musk, a significant backer of U.S. President Donald Trump and the broader MAGA motion, threatened retaliation and known as to “abolish the EU.”
Landau mentioned the effective was solely the “tip of the iceberg” and that the EU had repeatedly undermined its credibility with the U.S. with its concentrate on insurance policies that he described in a separate publish on Saturday as opposed to U.S. pursuits and a type of “civilizational suicide” — echoing feedback directed towards the EU in Trump’s current withering overseas coverage blueprint.
“When these nations put on their NATO hats, they insist that Transatlantic cooperation is the cornerstone of our mutual safety. However when these nations put on their EU hats, they pursue all kinds of agendas which are usually totally opposed to US pursuits and safety—together with censorship, financial suicide/local weather fanaticism, open borders, disdain for nationwide sovereignty/promotion of multilateral governance and taxation, help for Communist Cuba,” he posted.
“This inconsistency can not proceed,” he went on. “Both the good nations of Europe are our companions in defending the Western civilization that we inherited from them or they don’t seem to be. However we can not fake that we’re companions whereas these nations permit the EU’s unelected, undemocratic, and unrepresentative paperwork in Brussels to pursue insurance policies of civilizational suicide.”
Landau earlier this week slammed European NATO allies for slicing the U.S. out of the bloc’s protection buildup, as POLITICO first reported.