MEP Manfred Weber has called for cooperation with the USA to combat Russia and China but has made no mention of working with Britain.
He said there were two steps for a common foreign policy.
He said: “Firstly, the rapid development of a vaccine was only possible because the authorities worked quickly during the approval process.
“No blockades, but this speed is what we also need now, in other fields of the research sector and in the investments for the climate protection
“With an immediate action plan for cutting bureaucracies, in the European Union, we should work together with all stakeholders to identify 300 EU regulations that we will abolish or simplify, in the next 12 months.
“Secondly, for the production of an electric car only half the number of employees is needed, many industrial jobs in the European Union are under threat.
“New jobs are urgently needed in today’s European Union.
“International trade was, and is, a job machine.
“Why not now to pick up this debate with our American friends, let us negotiate an EU US trade emergency programme on the mobility sector on…
