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Duterte to EU: ‘Mind your own business’


President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Sunday slammed the European Union for supposedly trying to impose their cultures and beliefs in the Philippines.

"Do not impose your culture or your belief... Do not impose in other countries specially to us. Ito, paborito nila itong mga ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nation] countries," Duterte said before the Filipino community in Myanmar late Sunday evening.

This comes after the European Union earlier this month flagged concerns that the Philippines could possibly lose billions of dollars in trade deals should judicial concerns in the country persist.

“We are concerned about some of the issues here in the Philippines: the reinstatement of the death penalty, also the extrajudicial killings and the proposal to lower the judicial responsibility age to nine years – and this is also some of the concerns that we have conveyed to our partners here in the Philippines,” European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malstrom said.

Should these issues continue, these could affect the review of the current trade agreement of the Philippines with the EU dubbed as the Generalized System of Preference Plus (GSP+).

Responding to this, Duterte on Sunday said the EU should mind their own business.

"Why are you trying to impose on us? Why don't you mind your own business? Why'd you have to fuck with us? Goddamit," he said. Jon Viktor D. Cabuenas/BM, GMA News

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