EU negotiator: Trump, Putin, Islamic extremism threaten bloc

Source: Associated Press

EU negotiator: Trump, Putin, Islamic extremism threaten bloc

LONDON (AP) U.S. President Donald Trump poses a serious threat to the continued existence to the European Union because he is working with far-right groups on the continent to engineer the bloc's disintegration, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator said Monday.

Guy Verhofstadt, a former prime minister of Belgium and now a liberal member of the European Parliament, said the EU had "fewer friends than ever in the United States today."

Trump and his political advisers had joined with European far-right movements in undermining the EU, he said in a speech at London think-tank Chatham House. Trump himself had spoken "very favorably of the fact that other countries will want to break away" from the 28-member bloc.

Under the "enormous political influence of his chief political adviser Steve Bannon, he has sent people to Berlin, to Paris to prepare the ground for similar referenda as Brexit" Verhofstadt said, referring to the 2016 British vote to leave the EU.

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