'Europeans Can't Think of Building a Future Without the Americans'
Frances ambassador to the United States on Donald Trump and the future of the West.
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE July 04, 2017
President Donald Trump isnt the leader of the free world, says French Ambassador Gérard Araud.
These days, he says, no one is.
And as Trump heads to Europe Wednesday for his first G-20 meeting as president and first face-to-face encounter with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the world needs to figure out what to do next.
We have to define what is the free world, and today, there is nothe expression of leader, I think, doesnt really doesnt fit the question, Araud told me, in an interview for POLITICOs Off Message podcast in his office at the French Embassy, a large, modernist complex across the street from the Georgetown Hospital.
This world order, the traditional liberal world order, is more or less undermined, really, or looks injured. Where is the United States? And thats a question which is on the table, Araud said. I think its impossible to move on without America, and I think also that the United States really cant let the world move on.
more + recording of the interview:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/04/europeans-cant-think-of-building-a-future-without-the-americans-215334