L'Allemagne irritée par la bourde de Victoria Nuland

Mme Nuland, la diplomate américaine la plus influente en Europe, a soulevé la controverse cette semaine après la divulgation d'une conversation pendant laquelle elle a dit: "Fuck the European Union". Elle discutait à ce moment de la question Ukrainienne. Les Allemands, déjà échaudés par l'écoute électronique de la chancelière Merkel, s'indignent de cette déclaration.

 "“The chancellor finds these remarks absolutely unacceptable and wants to emphasize that Mrs. Ashton is doing an outstanding job,” Wirtz said.

Still freshly furious over the phone-tapping scandals, Germans took to Twitter and other social media in a litany of bitter comments. “Since we know now that the leadership circles in the #USA don’t give a s--- about Europe, we should just stop the Free Trade Agreement,” came one tweet from @kl1lercher, referring to ongoing negotiations to forge a transatlantic free-trade deal. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry said at a media briefing Friday that “this just goes to show once more that wiretapping is stupid.”

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