President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve in a top State Department post said “fuck the EU” in a leaked 2014 call, causing a diplomatic row at the time with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Biden’s nominee for undersecretary of state for political affairs, Victoria Nuland, was serving as former President Barack Obama’s assistant secretary for Europe when she used the undiplomatic language during a private phone call with then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt. Nuland was expressing exasperation that her European counterparts were not doing enough to support Ukraine as it was on the brink of revolution against its former Russian-backed president, Viktor Yanukovych.
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