EU and US: Presidential Merger

Poland’s former Prime Minister has replaced Herman Van Rompuy as European Council President.
What does this have to do with Washington? Well, the new European president, Donald Tusk, got on the phone with U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday during his very first day in office.
Their main topic was none other than the free-trade scheme known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
We’ve steadily reported on this trade deal, known as T-TIP. While ISIS and Ebola headlines swallow metric tons of ink and paper in the world’s newspapers, T-TIP has been quietly advancing.
T-TIP encompasses a huge chunk of global GDP and is cut from the same basic “corporate cloth” as the North American and Central American Free Trade Agreements, otherwise known as NAFTA and CAFTA.
The European Union Delegation to the U.S. has a Washington office. And, as we’ve reported, it’s a key conduit in the ongoing drive to virtually merge at least some governmental operations and economic regulations of the EU and the U.S.
When that Delegation issued a news bulletin today, to announce the appointment of Donald Tusk as European President, the high priority that Tusk gave to contacting Obama was stressed.
In that bulletin, Tusk remarked:
“I was pleased today to speak to the President of the United States, Barack Obama. That . . . phone call takes place on my first day in office as President of the European Council . . . “
Tusk added: “I was happy to hear the American President ́s equally strong commitment to our transatlantic bond.”
Tusk wasted little time in confirming the central topic at hand, saying:
“We discussed the important work ahead . . . in negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership . . . .The T-TIP is not just about free trade; it is an expression of our geopolitical partnership. We agreed to step up our efforts . . . ”
As WHDT’s Mark Anderson has determined covering various Washington think tanks, the EU-US relationship is based as much on a merger as a simple partnership. Anderson noted:

According to Tusk, that “partnership” also includes closely dealing with the Western version of the Ukraine crisis. That includes sanctions against Russia and “financial support to Ukraine.”
Regarding his chat with Obama, Tusk remarked: “We . . . agreed on how important it is for Russia to withdraw from eastern Ukraine . . .”
Tusk also touched on the need for the EU and America to further strengthen NATO ties. So, among other things, this means that the recent address given to the U.S. Congress by Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, may reward him with the U.S. tax dollars and equipment he sought to fight Russia. But above all, Americans perhaps should question just whom their own president really works for when the destinies of other nations are put on such an even par with America’s future.