EU’s Juncker: US abandoning allies, losing influence under Trump

The head of the European Union’s executive says that the United States under President Donald Trump is turning its back on multilateral relations and friendly cooperation “with a ferocity that can only surprise us.”

EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says that in the wake of Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, the United States “no longer wants to cooperate with other parts in the world.”

In an address to Belgium’s Flemish regional parliament, Juncker says that it is up to the EU to take on the mantle of the United States.

Juncker says: “At this point, we have to replace the United States, which as an international actor has lost vigor, and because of it, in the long term, influence.”

— AP