He’s NOT welcome! Meddling EU try to BLOCK Trump's ambassador pick
MEDDLING Brussels fat cats have threatened to block the appointment of Donald Trump’s favourite for EU ambassador.
Ted Malloch has ruffled feathers among the EU
Economist Ted Malloch has ruffled feathers by comparing the European Union (EU) to the Soviet Union and saying the bloc needs “taming”.
He has also laid into European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker saying he was a “very adequate mayor, I think, of some city in Luxembourg and maybe he should go back and do that again”.
Now eurocrats have rallied round to ensure Mr Trump does not see his favourite make moves in Brussels.
Trump's favourite for EU ambassador is Ted Malloch
He's not welcome here
EU Brexit negotiator, Guy Verhofstadt, and the leader of the European People’s Party, Manfred Weber, sent a letter to Mr Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk on Thursday asking that Mr Malloch not be granted the role because of his “outrageous malevolence against the values that define this European Union.”
The letter said: “We are strongly convinced that people seeing as their mission to disrupt or dissolve the European Union should not be accredited as official representatives to the EU.”
Gianna Pittella, EU Parliament president of the Socialists and Democrats, called for Brussels to “block the appointment of Malloch” over his “delirious” criticism.
He told Politico he’s “not welcome here”.
Guy Verhofstadt has written a letter calling for Malloch to be blocked
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Malloch heavily criticised Jean-Claude Juncker
Mr Malloch, a businessman who supported Brexit, was reportedly interviewed for the post by Donald Trump.
When interviewed about the Brussels post, he said: “I had in a previous career a diplomatic post where I helped bring down the Soviet Union. So maybe there’s another union that needs a little taming.”
For a nominated ambassador to the EU to receive accreditation as head of mission in Brussels, the person has to gain the approval of the commission and the European council along with member states and the European External Action Service.