“Europe is alone and it must come together in the face of a major challenge”estimates Roland Lescure, deputy (EPR) of the French of North America, guest of franceinfo evening Wednesday November 6, after the election of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. For the former Minister of Industry, “Europe’s imperative duty is to strengthen itself” and provide an answer “concerted” et “forte”. “It is in crises that Europe, in general, advances”he emphasizes.
“In a very concrete way, exporting to the United States will cost the American consumer 20% more, so it will affect you in terms of competitiveness”says Roland Lescure. According to him, there is a “imperative need to invest here to reindustrialize, to decarbonize industry, otherwise at the risk of seeing our industries leave there, since the subsidies there are enormous”.
Donald Trump's victory, “someone who is both extremely frank and direct and largely unpredictable”worries Roland Lescure. As the Senate and Congress move toward Republican control, the new president of the United States “has a free hand to implement an agenda, unlike eight years ago”explains the MP.
Donald Trump “has succeeded in bringing together the anger, the disappointments, the concerns which are accumulating in America, as everywhere in the world, in the face of a world which is moving very fast and which worries us, the technological revolution, globalization, immigration”analyzes Roland Lescure. According to him, “we must recognize that the Democratic campaign was not up to par”notably because Kamala Harris had “little time to campaign”.
