The world needs less Trump and more Europe

Can I talk to any of the President of the United States? Maybe with some shiny object? Even with some funny video on YouTube or with some campaign reasons in the U.S. provinces. Because when he deals with foreign policy themes Donald Trump, North Korea, and Iran, for example, his partners are terrified. First of all in Europe.

After years of preparation, negotiations partners discussed 20 months of atomic agreement with Iran. The European Union took place at the table, and it was clearly calculated as its work. After all, it bore fruit here that Europeans prefer to solve crises - classical diplomacy. Since then, the Atomic Energy Organization has checked eight times if Iranians truly meet the conditions. The answer was always “Yes”! So convincing were the results that the German Chancellor himself proposed that this agreement be taken as a project to use for further steps on the North Korean issue.

Direct Confrontation With Europe

Now Donald Trump comes and threatens to break up the greatest success of international diplomacy in recent decades. For what? A crazy electoral promise. He mentions North Korea and Iran with one breath and sounds as if both should be treated with equal severity. To throw both countries into the same pot, this would not happen to Europeans. They know what disastrous consequences would bring about their door breaking the atomic agreement with Iran: destabilizing the Near East, a return of Iran to China and Russia, a strengthening of antiWestern forces and so on.

What can the European Union do? He certainly wants to hold out to the agreement has already made it known to EU Chief Diplomat Moghrin. Whether the U.S. wants to keep the deal or not. In practice, this could have the appearance of Americans putting on sanctions again, but not Europeans. By that they would be on the direct course of confrontation. How the US president would react to this is unclear. At the same time, the West would lose all credibility as a moral and political unit, and the damage would leave its mark. When the US and the EU are no longer able to act together, they are no longer taken seriously. So the EU won't be able to do anything more than exploit the impact it has on the Trump government. Europeans should try to keep Americans in agreement.

Hard Diplomacy

As far as North Korea is concerned, hopes are darker than Iran. Here the influence of Europeans is too small. Donald Trump and Kim Jong Uns atomic thunder, the EU cannot and will not follow. The EU's demand that only political and diplomatic means be exploited here seems to have Europeans hit the problem with cotton. That, however, is the right path and the only one that can follow the EU. Here again, the gap between Europe and America has been highlighted in sensitive political issues.

A blind military blow, many believe the president of the United States may even undertake it. For balanced and complex negotiations, the angry man in the White House lacks patience, experts, and competence. This is all Europe.

DW