The latest comments from the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker shows the deep division of opinions running between President Trump and the rest of the Europe. The divisions were somewhat clear after President Trump’s visit to NATO and the G7 meeting last week. Speaking at the NATO headquarter President Trump called on all NATO members to pay their fair share of contribution to the organization. After that at the G& meeting in Italy, the rest of the members clashed with President Trump as they failed to make him agree to the Paris Climate Accord. The newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a snub to President Trump by evading him at the last moment to handshake the German chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders before getting back to him. After the meeting, speaking at a rally in Germany, Ms. Merkel said, the days when can Europe rely on others are of the past and the continent must take its fate into its own hands. This week President Trump escalated the tensions with Germany by tweeting that Germany runs a trade surplus with the United States and pays far less towards NATO, which he called as bad and promised to change.

Deep divisions of G7 reflected from Juncker’s comments. Speaking in Berlin, Mr. Juncker said, “This notion - ‘I am Trump. I am American. America first, so I’m going to get out of it.’ - that is not going to happen … We tried to explain this in clear, simple sentences to Mr. Trump in Taormina [Italy], but it would appear that he didn’t understand……..Mr. Trump doesn’t get close enough to the dossiers to fully understand them”. Mr. Juncker says that even if the United States choose to exit the deal, the law will make it years before it can be done. President Trump is expected to announce his decision on Climate Change this week; most probably today. Mr. Juncker didn’t stop at just criticizing the President on the Climate Front, he went further to attack United States’ ‘trade protectionist’ attitude. He added that he has warned President Trump that trade protectionism would have diplomatic cost, “I explained to Mr. Trump that it’s not good for the US to withdraw from international economic life, but he does it. I’m against him doing this, but he doesn’t care”.