“Europe, what phone number?” This famous apocryphal quote, attributed to former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, is often used to denounce the inability of the European Union (EU) to speak with one voice and the difficulty, for its interlocutors, of know who to contact.
No problem regarding the future American president, notes The Time, he found his answer: “When Donald Trump wants to 'call Europe', he addresses individual Prime Ministers [d’extrême droite] like the Italian Giorgia Meloni and the Hungarian Viktor Orban, and possibly to the French president, Emmanuel Macron”, writes the Belgian financial daily.
“As for the President of the Commission and the President of the Council, they have been left to watch, stunned, in recent weeks as the European Union is relegated to the sidelines of world politics.”
A war of delay
Even before taking office, on January 20, Donald Trump is already making headlines by announcing his intention to annex Greenland (which is a Danish territory), while his collaborator Elon Musk supports the campaign of the far-right candidate German, Alice Weidel.
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