{"id":392350,"date":"2019-01-10T19:35:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-administration-downgrades-eu-diplomats-in-us\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T19:35:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T18:35:52","slug":"presstv-trump-administration-downgrades-eu-diplomats-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-administration-downgrades-eu-diplomats-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump administration downgrades EU diplomats in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The administration of US President Donald Trump has lowered the status of the European Union\u2019s diplomats in Washington without notifying the bloc, deepening a growing rift between Washington and Brussels.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US State Department lowered the EU mission&#8217;s diplomatic status from member state to international organization last month.<\/p>\n<p>The snub was first reported Tuesday by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s clearly political and, frankly, amateur and unprofessional,&#8221; said one diplomat from a non-EU country. &#8220;I&#8217;m putting it politely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The EU learned of the diplomatic downgrade during the December 5 funeral of former US President George H.W. Bush, when EU Ambassador David O&#8217;Sullivan was among the last diplomats to be called to pay respects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every administration has the right to review this order but why now, two years in?&#8221; an EU official said. &#8220;What for us is remarkable is that we were not notified,&#8221; the official continued. &#8220;For a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/10\/585410\/US-EU-Trump-siplomatic-status-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration of US President Donald Trump has lowered the status of the European Union\u2019s diplomats in Washington without notifying the bloc, deepening a growing rift between Washington and Brussels. The US State Department lowered the EU mission&#8217;s diplomatic status from member state to international organization last month. The snub was first reported Tuesday by [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392350","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=392350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}