{"id":12924,"date":"2014-02-07T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T10:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12924"},"modified":"2014-02-07T10:27:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T10:27:54","slug":"f-k-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12924","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;F&#8211;k the EU&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nuland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12925\" alt=\"nuland\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nuland.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nuland.jpg 299w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nuland-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 85vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>The State Department\u2019s top official for Europe apologized today after being caught making a crude and dismissive remark about the European Union, one of America\u2019s top allies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A leaked phone call posted on YouTube caught Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland saying \u201cf&#8211;k the EU\u201d while speaking with U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nuland used the expletive while complaining that the European Union hasn\u2019t done enough to get Ukraine to break an agreement with Russia and instead sign on to a trade agreement with Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dmitry Loskutov, an aid to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, tweeted, \u201cSort of controversial judgment from Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland speaking about the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said today that Nuland has apologized for the remark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Psaki would not say to whom Nuland apologized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The four-minute conversation was about a Jan. 25 offer by Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovich to two opposition leaders, who want him to sign the EU deal, to become prime minister and deputy prime minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nuland said she wanted one of the two leaders to join the government, but that another was too inexperienced and should stay outside officialdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked if Nuland\u2019s expletives reflected a wider frustration within the State Department towards the EU, Psaki said she had a certain comfort level with expletives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department\u2019s top official for Europe apologized today after being caught making a crude and dismissive remark about the European Union, one of America\u2019s top allies. A leaked phone call posted on YouTube caught Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland saying \u201cf&#8211;k the EU\u201d while speaking with U.S. ambassador &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12924\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;F&#8211;k the EU&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3,10],"tags":[8297,70,66,7484,1415,8296],"class_list":["post-12924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-united-states","tag-assistant-secretary-of-state-for-european-and-eurasian-affairs","tag-eu","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-un","tag-vicoria-nuland"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/nuland.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12926,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions\/12926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}