Tusk takes Johnson to task over Hitler barb
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EUROPEAN Union President Donald Tusk waded into the British debate on EU membership yesterday by deriding former London mayor Boris Johnson for comparing the bloc’s aims to those of Adolf Hitler.
Tusk said even though the EU had stayed on the sidelines of the British referendum campaign on whether it should leave the EU, “when I hear the EU being compared to the plans and projects of Adolf Hitler I cannot remain silent.”
Johnson argued over the weekend that the 28-nation bloc was creating a superstate that mirrors the attempt of the Nazi leader to dominate the European continent.
“Such absurd arguments should be completely ignored if they hadn’t been formulated by one of the most influential politicians of the ruling party,” Tusk said in Copenhagen.
Britain holds a “leave or stay” in referendum on June 23 on its always cantankerous relationship with the EU and the campaign has been getting increasingly edgy.
So far, Tusk and others had taken a hands-off approach in a campaign that is also vital to the future of the EU itself. That changed when Johnson, the most prominent British politician on the “leave” side, said the past 2,000 years of European history have been dominated by doomed attempts to unify the continent, including those of Napoleon and Hitler.
“Boris Johnson crossed the boundaries of a rational discourse, demonstrating political amnesia,” said Tusk.
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