{"id":33035,"date":"2017-06-24T07:02:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T07:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=33035"},"modified":"2017-06-24T07:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T07:02:10","slug":"trump-putin-erdogan-behave-like-autocratic-rulers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/trump-putin-erdogan-behave-like-autocratic-rulers.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Putin and Erdogan behave like autocratic rulers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump, Putin and Erdogan behave like autocratic rulers<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The European Union must become stronger in response to a weakening of democracy in the United States, Russia and Turkey, the leader of Germany&#8217;s centre-left Social Democrats said in remarks published on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Martin Schulz, who is also a former president of the European Parliament, said that U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan behaved like &#8220;autocratic rulers&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;It is now important to rejuvenate Europe and make it stronger. Not only through words but also through concrete policies,&#8221; Schulz told the Passauer Neue Presse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts leaders of the G20 leading economies at a summit in Hamburg on July 7-8, where Trump&#8217;s vow to renegotiate trade agreements and make them better for the United States is expected to be one of the most divisive topics on the agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Opposition to Trump&#8217;s protectionist agenda is one area on which Schulz and Merkel agree. Schulz last month accused Trump of destroying Western values and undermining international cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;There are some in the G20 that behave like autocratic rulers: Turkish President Erdogan, Russian President Putin and also U.S. President Trump,&#8221; Schulz said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Schulz&#8217;s SPD are 14 percentage points behind Merkel&#8217;s Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavaria-based Christian Social Union sister party three months before a national election on Sept. 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump wants Germany and other European allies to boost defence contributions to the NATO military alliance. He has criticized Germany&#8217;s large trade surplus with the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Merkel said this week that open markets and free trade were a key focus of Germany&#8217;s G20 presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-g20-germany-schulz-idUSKBN19F002<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/trump-putin-erdogan-behave-like-autocratic-rulers.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump, Putin and Erdogan behave like autocratic rulers The European Union must become stronger in response to a weakening of democracy in the United States, Russia and Turkey, the leader of Germany&#8217;s centre-left Social Democrats said in remarks published on Saturday. 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