President Donald Trump is due to announce his decision on Friday, May 12.
The US Administration takes an “every man for himself” approach to Euro-Atlantic relations. The German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told ARD on Sunday.
These remarks come as US President Donald Trump is undermining the nuclear deal with Iran. That is the deal that the former Secretary of State, John Kerry, hailed as the means to avoid a war.
Steinmeier said that the new American administration no longer leads a global community, “… but sees the world basically as an arena where everyone has to somehow find their own way.”
He pointed to the Franco-German axis and the quest for common European interests, not only on trade but also with regard to the nuclear deal with Iran.
President Emmanuel Macron also warned that Washington is risking conflict if the US withdraws from the 2015 deal. “We would open the Pandora’s box; there could be war,” Macron told the German Der Spiegel magazine last week.
The Republican chair of the House Armed Service Committee echoed the views of European allies, warning the Trump administration not to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal. Texas Congressman Mac Thornberry told Fox News Sunday that walking away would be a mistake and he would “counsel against it.”
Thornberry was opposed to the deal when it was signed by the Obama Administration in 2015. “The key question is, ok, what happens next if the U.S. pulls out,” Thornberry cautioned, adding that “the Europeans are not going to re-impose sanctions, so where does that leave us and Iran?”
https://www.neweurope.eu/article/euro-atlantic-community-disarray-iran-nuclear-deal/