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Jan 13, 2021
Mike Pompeo Cancels Europe Trip After He s Snubbed By Luxembourg, EU
Allies were reportedly “embarrassed” by the Secretary of State after last week s violence in Washington.
Robin Emmott and Humeyra Pamuk
BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo canceled his Europe trip at the last minute on Tuesday after Luxembourg’s foreign minister and top European Union officials declined to meet him, European diplomats and other people familiar with the matter said.
The Europeans snubbed Washington’s top envoy days after the storming of the U.S. Capitol by thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump, an unprecedented attack on American democracy that stunned many world leaders and U.S. allies.
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