Unilateralism a wall between US and EU

Ignoring the call of an overwhelming majority of the international community that the United States continue to honor the Iran nuclear deal, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday withdrew the US from the deal and reimposed sanctions on Teheran.

Last month, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, during their separate visits to the US, tried to reason with Trump that it was in the interest of Middle East peace - and thus in the interest of Washington - that the US stay in the deal. But their efforts had little effect on Trump. The French and German leaders even failed to persuade Trump to rethink his decision to impose 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports.

The fact is, despite their troublesome alliance with Washington, some European Union countries changed their "policies" to strengthen relations with the US. For instance, Macron started bilateral talks with the US after Trump made public his discontent with the EU's support for multilateralism and Germany's trade surplus with the US.