"The vast majority of politicians and citizens in Europe want President Barack Obama to win“. He didn't mince words the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, in an interview with German radio Deutschlandfunk. Europe – he explained – would vote for Obama because he "is closer to European values than Mitt Romney is".
In particular, according to the German Social Democrat, there is a sharing of values between Europeans and Obama in matters of social policy and health care, while his Republican challenger "and the religious extremists who support him" are far more distant from these positions.
Schulz acknowledged that international politics played a minimal role in the American presidential campaign and observed that relations with the Old Continent are now not the most important for the United States: "Europeans would be taken more seriously if they were united" , he concluded.
