comments critical of the US war in Iran by President Catherine Connolly<\/a> or other Irish criticisms of the US. <\/p>\nHowever, he added that if any damage had been done, it was not lasting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could have been damaged, I’m not going to tell you whether it was damaged or not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you have relationships with friends that sometimes are better than at other times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I don’t think there was irreparable damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But you don’t have to agree with us on everything, and you don’t have to agree with President Trump on everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Over time, this is a relationship that will last.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Puzder, who has been Mr Trump’s ambassador to Brussels since last January, praised European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen as “a very brilliant, talented woman”, but criticised EU regulations and competitiveness, particularly in AI.<\/p>\n
“America wants the European Union, and Europe in general, to be prosperous.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“A prosperous Europe is a better trade partner, a prosperous Europe is better able to defend itself,” he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really need to see Europe move into the AI economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a tremendous amount of regulation, well intended, but which has caused Europe to miss the digital economy and to have declining GDP growth compared to the United States in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said that what was needed to be a force in AI was all available in Ireland, but it needs looser EU regulations.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need data centres, data, and the US AI hardware stack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’re in Ireland. It’s Meta, it’s Google, it’s the American tech companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“You need energy regulations that acknowledge the fact that you need fossil fuels and we want them to be less expensive, not more expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Iran, Mr Puzder said that Mr Trump was forced to intervene for fear of Iran gaining access to nuclear weapons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said that there was “no political advantage” to Mr Trump involving the US and that “\u201cthis is a chance to eliminate this problem, rather than kicking the can down the road”. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Democrats, you know, they\u2019re going to criticise him, whatever he does. And… the Maga movement who supports him, they don\u2019t want to get involved in wars overseas either,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo if he made the decision to do this, particularly with a midterm election coming up, the only explanation is that… he believed this was the right thing to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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