Shameless Juncker Just Used Trump’s Iran Withdrawal to Push ‘United States of Europe’

• Shameless Juncker Just Used Trump’s Iran Withdrawal to Push ‘United States of Europe’
  by JOE BARNES, BRUSSELS CORRESPONDENT, https://www.express.co.uk/
  EUROPEAN UNION boss Jean-Claude Juncker is using Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal to further the bloc’s ambitions of creating a ‘United States of Europe’ of its own single army, according to British MEP Mike Hookem.
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  The European Commission President has launched several stinging attacks to Washington while other EU leaders offer up more pragmatic responses to situation. Mr Trump removed the US from the 2015-agreement which was designed to prevent Iran from building an arsenal of deadly nuclear weapons.
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  The deal, which was also signed by Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, lifts economic lifted tough economic sanctions which were crippling Iran. Instead, the US President promised a wave of new trade sanctions, which has worried European firms who do business with Tehran.
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  In response, Mr Juncker told the Flemish regional parliament in Belgium that it was time that the EU replaces the US as a world leader. The top Eurocrat said: “At this point, we have to replace the United States, which as an international actor has lost vigour, and because of it, in the long term, influence.”
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  Mr Juncker, speaking at a separate event in Florence, also had harsh words for Mr Trump’s tactics on the world stage, including a dig at the recent war over steel and aluminium tariffs between Brussels and Washington. The Commission President told the 2018 State of the Union conference: “The Lisbon pact allows us to take decision with unanimity but also with a majority. “It will be important to redefine the decision-making mechanism to matter on the global exchequer.
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