EU Official Adds Trump To List of ‘Threats’ Facing Europe
- 7 years ago
The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has added U.S. President Trump to a list of forces threatening Europe.
The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has added U.S. President Trump to a list of forces threatening Europe, reports the BBC.
Tusk made the declaration in a letter sent to 27 European Union heads in advance of a summit in Malta.
According to a CBS News report, he “mentioned the Trump administration as part of an external ‘threat’ to the bloc alongside China, Russia, radical Islam, war and terror.”
The letter reportedly added, “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.”
As such, he said, “We cannot surrender to those who want to weaken or invalidate the Transatlantic bond, without which global order and peace cannot survive. We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand, divided we fall.”
Tusk also wrote, “The disintegration of the European Union will not lead to the restoration of some mythical, full sovereignty of its member states, but to their real and factual dependence on the great superpowers: the United States, Russia and China. Only together can we be fully independent.”
Reuters has attributed his strong stance to a growing concern over Trump’s advocacy of policies like Brexit and his controversial immigration ban in the U.S.
The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has added U.S. President Trump to a list of forces threatening Europe, reports the BBC.
Tusk made the declaration in a letter sent to 27 European Union heads in advance of a summit in Malta.
According to a CBS News report, he “mentioned the Trump administration as part of an external ‘threat’ to the bloc alongside China, Russia, radical Islam, war and terror.”
The letter reportedly added, “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.”
As such, he said, “We cannot surrender to those who want to weaken or invalidate the Transatlantic bond, without which global order and peace cannot survive. We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand, divided we fall.”
Tusk also wrote, “The disintegration of the European Union will not lead to the restoration of some mythical, full sovereignty of its member states, but to their real and factual dependence on the great superpowers: the United States, Russia and China. Only together can we be fully independent.”
Reuters has attributed his strong stance to a growing concern over Trump’s advocacy of policies like Brexit and his controversial immigration ban in the U.S.