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Donald Trump has the same view of the European Union as most
Americans and that is that the EU is not relevant and is going to fall apart. This
is in large part influenced by the media, which broadcast attention getting
headlines that the EU is going to collapse.
All previous US administrations have embraced the EU as
helping to prevent war on their continent's soil and also encourage the EU
taking their part in the burden that has rested on the US’s shoulders for
securing worldwide democracy and peace. US leaders have each repeated the same
rhetoric when it has come to the EU.
They all stood united on their position from president to president
despite being Republican or Democrat. That is until Donald Trump.
Donald Trump aligned
himself with the EU’s far right MEP Nigel Farage who headed the UKIP party and
is the man responsible for BREXIT. Trump’s team also reached out to the right
wing National Front in France, both of which advocate for the nation state and
are anti-EU. They want to end the EU making decisions and writing the rules for
their respective nations. They also
highlight the EU’s undemocratic structure.
They are anti globalist. Nigel
Farage views the EU as a failed project and has predicted on several occasions
the coming failure of the euro.
According to Euractiv, Donald Trump’s staff phoned EU
officials and actually asked them which countries were going to leave next. This negative tone was further reinforced by
Donald Trump’s staff sending a message to US ambassador to the EU; Anthony
Gardner that he and other appointees must leave by inauguration day, which was
an unprecedented move on the part of the new administration as past protocol
usually allows them to stay on for a transition period. European Federalism and the accompanying
European Movement- European Project have largely been ignored by the media and
US administrations, but since embracing Nigel Farage, Trump took notice.
After
Donald Trump’s interview with the London Times his anti EU stance was further
confirmed and the media went wild with the news. Trump let it be known he would help BREXIT
and negotiate a trade deal with the UK
within 90 days. Afterwards Nigel Farage literally became drunk on Trump,
which was evidenced during his radio show titled, "EU Elites Gutted by Trump's
Trade Deal Offer.”
In Nigel Farage’s December 14 speech to the EU Parliament he
compared 2016’s events to the three wise men bearing their gifts. He called the gifts: the Brexit Deliverance,
the Trump Triumph and the Italian Rebellion
and stated, “its just that in this case the gifts were all the same,
democracy and the rebirth of the nation state. He concluded, “A democratic
revolution has begun.”
European Union officials on the other hand view Trump’s
statements that NATO is obsolete and that countries that do not need to pay
their share, along with his friendly overtures to Vladimir Putin as the end of
NATO and American military support. This supported their resolve to go forward
with their own army. In the face of the EU’s plans for its own army and
military Nigel Farage stated, “The UK will act as the bridge between the US and
the nation states of Europe to make sure NATO is secure. ” Farage is obviously
wanting the US and the UK to bring the world geopolitically to the same place
in time that existed as at the end of the Cold War in the Reagan, Thatcher era.
Within
the interview Trump displayed his ignorance of EU affairs when asked several
questions about the EU. Such as what number would be the number to phone to
speak to the EU and he answered Merkels “is by far one of the most important
leaders”, when in fact it would be EU Commission President Juncker, He also
stated that the EU began in part to beat the US in trade, which was not the
reason it formed, it formed to prevent another world war. Its economic union
was a path to lend to its own strength to make Europe relevant on the world
stage. Trump relayed a business
experience in Ireland and his deal could not go forward because it was delayed
by EU law, which he feels is a problem for the nation state.
EU, US relations and TTIP’s future are uncertain yet one
fact is sure, EU leaders are shaken by Donald Trump and are reacting to the coming
geopolitical shift his presidency will usher in with a call for greater
unification. MEP and ALDE leader Guy Verhofstadt stated to the
EU Parliament on January 18, 2017, “An American president openly saying that
other countries will break away from the European union, I have never seen it,
never heard it, That is a wakeup call for us to reform the European union the
fastest as possible.”
Verhofstadt stated on his Facebook Page:
"Trump is fueling EU
disintegration, attempting to undermine Merkel and plans to nominate an
ambassador who has only one quality: being a Brexit enthusiast. Europe must
wake up. US support has been important for the EU integration for the past 60
years. But we're on our own from here on. We must urgently reform the EU,
deliver on key issues and become relevant for citizens. This is not just about
the EU: it is about our freedoms, our way of life."
Verhofstadt repeated on
Twitter:
"I have never seen a US president saying the
EU will fall apart. This is the moment for unity, reform, and integration."
In another tweet:
"The turning point is here: Trump is openly
against the EU and saying other countries will break away."
Currently the EU and US have the largest bilateral trade
relationship and enjoy the most integrated economic relationship in the
world. According to the Delegation of
the European Union to the United States, "Together accounting for nearly 30
percent of global merchandise trade, about 40 percent of world trade in
services, and well over half of foreign direct investment. In 2012, 45 of 50
U.S. States exported more to Europe than to China – by a wide margin in many
cases." The EU-US economic relationship would further be enhanced by TTIP the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement would bolster the US
economy by 0.4% of GDP and the EU economy by 0.5% of GDP. TTIP, now hangs in the balance. EU- US trade might be getting an overhaul
under Donald Trump.
The question is what happens to the EU without the US
support? It has taken a hit with BREXIT and now Donald Trump and the
uncertainty of a Trump presidency.
The EU is a world power that has not punched up to its
weight. It is like a young giant that is still growing. The European Union does not rely on the
United States. The EU is the largest economy in the world. It is also the world’s largest trading
block. It is the world’s largest trader
of manufactured goods and services. The
EU ranks first in both inbound and outbound international investments. In addition, the EU is the top trading
partner for 80 countries, while the US is the top trading partner for only 20
countries.
The US since the 2008 financial crisis has generated
uncertainty, the dollar’s erosion as the world’s reserve currency, its enormous
deficit, and its experimental QE programs lent to the EU’s unsureness regarding
the US and in response the EU embarked on greater investment in China.
China is the EU's biggest
source of imports by far, and has also become one of the EU's fastest growing
export markets. Trade in services are weak as are investment flows
between both continents and they are looking to increase these areas and
resolve the various issues. At the 16th EU-China Summit held in November 2013
both sides announced the launch of negotiations of
a comprehensive EU-China Investment Agreement.
While the EU would prefer the conclusion of TTIP and the
trade relations with the US, and the agreement once concluded would help the
economies of both sides, without the US agreement the EU it is hedged via its
agreements with other nations and most recently CETA, the comprehensive trade
pact it just signed with Canada.
In end time Bible Prophecy we know that the EU is going to
become the greatest most powerful world empire to have ever existed and it is
going to be an economic powerhouse. Despite
BREXIT and Donald Trump in Bible Prophecy the EU is still going to move forward
despite taking these bumps. With Donald Trump as president there is a new
sheriff in town and the era of EU, US relations has come to an end, but with
the new president will come a geopolitical shift and the EU will continue to
move forward even to the surprise of some EU officials.
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