{"id":89733,"date":"2018-08-28T20:01:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/german-foreign-minister-calls-for-revamp-of-eu-us-ties-7\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T20:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T20:01:04","slug":"german-foreign-minister-calls-for-revamp-of-eu-us-ties-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/german-foreign-minister-calls-for-revamp-of-eu-us-ties-7\/","title":{"rendered":"German foreign minister calls for revamp of EU-US ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Wednesday for Europe to reshape its relationship with the United States, saying the two sides had been drifting apart even before Donald Trumps presidency and urging the EU to play a bigger global role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that distance between the two sides of the Atlantic has become politically wider is by no means solely due to Donald Trump,\u201d Maas wrote in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelsblatt.com\/meinung\/gastbeitraege\/gastkommentar-wir-lassen-nicht-zu-dass-die-usa-ueber-unsere-koepfe-hinweg-handeln\/22933006.html?ticket=ST-200331-PxbKaFFdq6nd9Kx5vcmQ-ap1\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">opinion piece<\/a> published by German business daily Handelsblatt on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. and Europe have been drifting apart for years. The overlapping of values and interests that has shaped our relationship for two generations is decreasing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To \u201crenew and preserve\u201d the historic relationship, Germany, alongside France and its European partners, should seek a \u201cbalanced partnership\u201d with Washington in which they \u201cform a counterweight where the U.S. crosses red lines\u201d and advance \u201cwhere America retreats,\u201d according to Maas.<\/p>\n<p>He called on European allies to \u201cstrengthen the European pillar\u201d of NATO \u2014 \u201cnot because Donald Trump is always setting new percentage targets [for defense spending], but because we can no longer rely on Washington to the same extent as before\u201d \u2014 and to move forward with plans for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/federica-mogherini-defense-hails-historic-eu-defense-pact-as-23-countries-sign-up\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">closer security and defense cooperation<\/a> among EU members.<\/p>\n<p>Maas urged European countries to talk about \u201cfair taxation\u201d of U.S. internet giants operating in Europe and called for the creation of a European Monetary Fund as well as international payment channels independent from the U.S. in order to \u201cstrengthen European autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maas also defended Europes efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/federica-mogherini-europe-vows-to-fight-for-iran-deal-as-us-donald-trump-renews-sanctions\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">legally protect<\/a> its companies from U.S. sanctions linked to Iran. \u201cIt is of strategic importance that we say clearly to Washington: We want to work together. But we will not allow you to act over our heads at our expense,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He also outlined plans to establish an \u201calliance of multilateralists\u201d that would commit to upholding \u201cbinding rules and fair competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maas said he had held talks with Canada, Japan and South Korea on forging a closer alliance, and reiterated the \u201cdoor is wide open \u2014 above all to the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><em>Read this next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/berlin-salafists-extreme-right-radical-left-on-rise\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin sees rise in Salafists, extreme right and radical left: report<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Wednesday for Europe to reshape its relationship with t..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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