The EU faces a US ultimatum by May 12 to either fix the Iran deal or the US will exit the deal. The decision will be a test not only of the EU´s strategic autonomy but also its Global Strategy.  In the article

 NO EU, NO IRAN DEAL: The EU´s Choice Between Multilateralism and the Transatlantic Link

 I trace the EU –US relations during the 12 years of negotiations leading to this conflict during the implementation  (see table 1 for policy differences).  The EU is committed to a multilateral rule-based system and the transatlantic relations as the basis of its foreign and security policy but given the US administration´s ultimatum will it be able to maintain both?

 The article has just been published online by the Non-Proliferation Review and can be downloaded at

 http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YrZudkzUsABaAgAIDtkM/full