European Union President Donald Tusk says that the first weeks of Donald Trump are contributing to the “highly unpredictable” outlook for the bloc.
In a letter to 27 EU leaders, Tusk mentioned the Trump administration as part of an external “threat” together with China, Russia, radical Islam, war and terror. The letter was not sent to Britain, which is poised to leave the bloc.
Echoing statements from many European capitals, he said that those global challenges, “as well as worrying declarations by the new American administration, all make our future highly unpredictable.”
He said that “particularly the change in Washington puts the European Union in a difficult situation; with the new administration seeming to put into question the last 70 years of American foreign policy.”
(AP)
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Good. The last 70 years was Europe living off the US gravy train. They should be nervous that it’s coming to an end.
They’re nervous because they know that just as brexit may very well be spreading to other EU countries such as France and the Netherlands (see recent polls in these particular countries), Trump’s executive orders referring to immigration are very popular amongst a large number of EU residents. And talking of gravy trains, the EU has to be the most expensive and corrupt of them all. Lots of faceless bureaucrats nervous about losing their pointless jobs. Tusk? – who elected him anyway? Doesn’t speak for ordinary hard working Europeans that’s for sure.