“It was a completely unnecessary denigrating move in the first place.'
From left, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, E.U. Commission Vice President Federica Mogherini, E.U. Commission Member Miguel Arias Cañete, E.U. Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic and Federal Minister Juliane Bogner Strauss pose before a meeting in Brussels on July 12, 2018.
“Although Europeans will welcome the restoration of his diplomatic status and move forward, this unfortunate incident has reinforced the diminishing trust in the transatlantic relationship,” Amanda Sloat, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe and former deputy assistant secretary for Southern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean Affairs at the State Department in the Obama administration, wrote in an email.
“The news two months ago that the E.U. Ambassador’s status would be downgraded was very much perceived by the Europeans as an intentional slur by the Trump administration,” Erik Brattberg, director of the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, wrote in an email. “It came on top of repeated negative statements about the E.U. by the president and other administration officials. It also seemed to reinforce the notion that the Trump administration viewed the E.U.
“The decision to reinstall the EU ambassador’s status is likely a way for the administration to correct an error — and certainly a response to the strong reaction from the EU side,” Brattberg wrote.
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