{"id":244136,"date":"2016-05-17T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T13:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/eu-chief-calls-ex-london-mayors-eu-nazi-comparison-absurd\/"},"modified":"2016-05-17T20:25:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T20:25:45","slug":"eu-chief-calls-ex-london-mayors-eu-nazi-comparison-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/eu-chief-calls-ex-london-mayors-eu-nazi-comparison-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"EU chief calls ex-London mayor\u2019s EU-Nazi comparison &#8216;absurd&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>European Union (EU) President Donald Tusk says former London mayor and Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson has \u201cpolitical amnesia\u201d after Johnson compared the EU\u2019s unifying agenda to Adolf Hitler&#8217;s plan to rule the continent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tusk said, \u201cWhen I hear the EU being compared to the plans and projects of Adolf Hitler I cannot remain silent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch absurd arguments should be completely ignored if they hadn\u2019t been formulated by one of the most influential politicians in the ruling party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoris Johnson crossed the boundaries of a rational discourse, demonstrating political amnesia,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Tusk was responding to comments Johnson made in an interview with The Daily Telegraph, published Sunday, in which he said that attempts to unify Europe always failed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/05\/17\/466048\/Tusk-Johnson-Hitler-political-amnesia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union (EU) President Donald Tusk says former London mayor and Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson has \u201cpolitical amnesia\u201d after Johnson compared the EU\u2019s unifying agenda to Adolf Hitler&#8217;s plan to rule the continent. Speaking at a press conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tusk said, \u201cWhen I hear the EU being compared to the plans and projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}