By Ana Palacio, former Spanish foreign minister and visiting lecturer at Georgetown University
After years of intensifying fragmentation and tension, the
European Union may be on the verge of losing its most precious assets:
peace, prosperity, freedom of movement, and values such as tolerance,
openness, and unity. Will Europeans unite in time to save them?
The danger facing the EU became starkly apparent last June,
when the United Kingdom voted to leave. And Donald Trump’s election as
US president has made matters far worse. The United States, Europe’s
closest and most powerful ally – a crucial security partner and bearer
of shared values – is now headed in a very different direction, and
threatening to leave a shaken and divided Europe alone in a harsh world
eager to tear it apart.
This might sound hyperbolic. Many in the US political class
remain convinced – at least in public – that US foreign policy under
Trump will be reined in by the more level-headed heavyweights in his
cabinet, such as Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson. “Don’t worry,” they say, “the worst will not
happen.”
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Source: euronews.
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