EU Urges Countries To Back World Health Org After Trump’s Threat

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference about the update on COVID-19 at the World Health Orga... FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 24, 2020 file photo, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses a press conference about the update on COVID-19 at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The European Union is calling for an independent evaluation of the World Health Organization’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, “to review experience gained and lessons learned.” (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File) MORE LESS
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BRUSSELS — The European Union is supporting the World Health Organization. The EU is urging all countries to back the U.N. agency after President Donald Trump threatened to permanently cut U.S. funding.

European Commission spokeswoman Virginie Battu-Henriksson says global cooperation is “the only effective and viable option to win this battle.”

She says “this is the time for solidarity. It is not the time for finger pointing or undermining multilateral cooperation.”

In a letter to WHO’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Trump wrote the agency’s “repeated missteps” in its response to the pandemic have proven “very costly for the world.”

Trump’s threatened to cut U.S. WHO funding unless it commits to “substantive improvements” in the next 30 days.

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  1. Trump’s threatened to cut U.S. WHO funding unless it commits to “substantive improvements” in the next 30 days.

    And what the actual fuck does this mean? The virus is here, on our shores and Trump can’t figure out how to make it do what he wants?

  2. Trump couldn’t destroy NATO, so he’s attacking the nearest acronym.

  3. I’m guessing it translates into a serious uptick in WHO bookings at various Trump properties, and a sizable donation to Trump2020?

  4. I know that it has been said many times and many ways, but Trump is the stooopidest man alive that heads a country.
    Trump just can’t figure out how to convince enough of us to ignore our self preservation instincts and go out and about spending money that we don’t have just to prop up his fat ass.
    (Oh my all that profanity and it isn’t even noon yet)

  5. Bolsonaro in Brazil is giving him a run for that award.

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