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Merkel: No 'eternal guarantee' for United States cooperation with EU
Deutsche Welle ^ | 01.12.2017 | rs/kl (AFP, Reuters)

Posted on 01/12/2017 5:06:53 PM PST by Olog-hai

As concern grows in Europe about US President-elect Donald Trump’s commitment to transatlantic cooperation, German Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed for the European Union to ”take more responsibility” on the world stage during a speech on Thursday in Brussels.

“From the point of view of some of our traditional partners — and I am thinking here as well about the transatlantic relations — there is no eternal guarantee for a close cooperation with us Europeans,” Merkel told an audience in Brussels after receiving honorary doctorate degrees from Belgium’s prestigious Leuven and Ghent universities. […]

“We should see this decision as an incentive to work together (for the goal), to hold Europe together now more than ever, to improve it further and to bring the citizens closer together again,” she said.

The EU agreed to take first steps toward expanding security and defense cooperation at a summit in December. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: euarmy; europe; eussr; merkel; trump
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Take note of the context. It is to break ties with and become an antagonist towards the USA. Their anti-Trump rhetoric post-election is exactly in that vein.
1 posted on 01/12/2017 5:06:53 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Fine with me. Let Mother Europa go it on her own. History shows that she’s been SO FLIPPIN’ GOOD AT IT! *SNORT*

Close the borders. Screw the rest of the world. Every DAY I become more of an Isolationist.

Because this One World Order and Globalist BS has been WAY too expensive for We The People...and has returned to us, well, NOTHING!

Stop sending money OUT of America. Stop it. STOP IT!

*SPIT*


2 posted on 01/12/2017 5:11:26 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Olog-hai

Merkel needs to go in next falls election!


3 posted on 01/12/2017 5:11:27 PM PST by Az Joe (11-8-2016-----We're still here President Reagan!!)
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To: Olog-hai

Germany and no doubt other EU countries are being destroyed from within by the invading Muslim hordes. And now she thinks she’s being abandoned by the US? I can’t think of a leader in recent history who has done more to destroy her own country than Angela Merkel.


4 posted on 01/12/2017 5:13:12 PM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

The Eurotrash got a free ride on their national security for decades.Now they choose to possibly go it on their own with the Russian wolf at their door?I wish them luck.


5 posted on 01/12/2017 5:15:12 PM PST by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: Olog-hai

This is the 4th Reich and this woman is one of those at the head.

They failed to mention this little bit before the Brexit vote. After, it came to light and no doubt if that vote was held today, they would vote to exit by a vast majority.


6 posted on 01/12/2017 5:18:18 PM PST by crz
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To: Farmer Dean

You always ‘get’ me, Farmer Dean. ;)


7 posted on 01/12/2017 5:18:38 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: be-baw

I can - Obunghole


8 posted on 01/12/2017 5:20:43 PM PST by nevadapatriot
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To: Az Joe

If Merkel isn’t kicked to the curb, Germany, then ALL of Europe is lost to the Barbarians.

And, um, NOT for the FIRST time! They just do NOT get it! WTF are their citizens DOING all day that they can’t pay attention and SEE this?

Secondly, LOVE you tag line. :)


9 posted on 01/12/2017 5:23:39 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Olog-hai

Merkel, you go girl!

10 posted on 01/12/2017 5:26:48 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Jerusalem is the city of The Great King!)
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what the *** is that? Germany is done


11 posted on 01/12/2017 5:33:03 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Olog-hai

And just what are they holding over us that we should cower down? They owe their backsides to us over the last hundred years along with a fortune in cash still unpaid from WW I and II. And if you add the military equipment we have sold them over the last 20 years, it gets really expensive. And there doesn’t appear to be a revolving account, just past due.

red


12 posted on 01/12/2017 5:33:56 PM PST by Redwood71
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To: Olog-hai

Hey, Angela, you are the last person who should be talking about holding Europe together.

And I suspect your Mussolini moment is just around the corner, honey.


13 posted on 01/12/2017 5:35:03 PM PST by Bigg Red (To Thee, O Lord, I lift my soul. Thank you for saving our Republic.)
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To: dp0622

Doesn’t look like either of those are of Germany. Police vehicles over there say “Polizei”.


14 posted on 01/12/2017 5:38:57 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Az Joe

Ha..... she is between a rock and a political hardplace

Save the country and have people saying Trump made her do it

or

Lose the country to the invaders and lose


15 posted on 01/12/2017 5:43:54 PM PST by Thibodeaux (the end of Obama plague is near........ rejoice)
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To: Olog-hai

boy you really pay attention. Now I know who to turn to for questions :)


16 posted on 01/12/2017 6:10:40 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Olog-hai

“...there is no eternal guarantee for a close cooperation with us Europeans,” Merkel told an audience in Brusselsj...”

Will they manage the upkeep of all those graves of Americans who died while liberating their asses? But the most appreciative generation of Europeans have almost passed on.

There is no eternal guarantee for a close cooperation with us Americans.


17 posted on 01/12/2017 6:15:19 PM PST by odawg
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To: Olog-hai

Did Hitler say this same exact phrase sometime in the past? Just wondering....


18 posted on 01/12/2017 6:22:21 PM PST by Klemper
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To: Olog-hai

There’s no eternal guarantees of anything when it comes to nations.
10 years after the French helped free us from Britain we were at war with them.

I doubt many Eurupean nations are eager for any ‘eternal guarantees’ that Germany would offer them.


19 posted on 01/12/2017 6:32:43 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: mrsmith

Or guarantees of any scope, if/when offered. The only thing on offer right now is more centralization and less freedom.


20 posted on 01/12/2017 6:37:53 PM PST by Olog-hai
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