It is dead but parts are still twitching and issuing press releases - from Bloomberg:
Trump Ghost Looms Over EU Summit as Leaders Push Back
U.S. President Donald Trump loomed over a Mediterranean gathering of European leaders, who used the meeting Friday to hit back at the new administration that has upended trans-Atlantic relations by dismissing the European Union’s validity.
“It is unacceptable that there be, through a certain number of statements by the president of the United States, a pressure on what Europe must be or what it must not be,” French President Francois Hollande told reporters Friday at the EU summit in Valletta, Malta.
Valletta, Malta - why are these "meetings" always held in the most posh of tourist destinations. Why are these over-educated ponces not using Skype. I love it that their chief complaint is about President Trump bothering their little sinecure and not what they are doing wrong that is making their world fall apart. It is never their fault - they are too smart to do anything wrong, it is always some outside force that they blame.
I love what our guy said to these 'leaders'
Laying bare the tensions, Ted Malloch, who says he’s been interviewed for the role of U.S. ambassador to the EU, lashed out at the 28-member bloc in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Friday. Following Trump’s lead, he encouraged other member states to hold referendums similar to the U.K., which voted last year to leave the bloc.
The EU “is an overly complex fairly bloated bureaucratic organization,” Malloch said. “Its ambitions have basically overstepped its capabilities, so the question really is what the European member states want to see for that European Union.”
Overly complex - that is putting it mildly. None of the Brussels bureaucrats are elected. Time to admit failure of the grand idea and go back to what works and stop trying to force what "sounds good".
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