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EU Must Plan for the Worst with Trump’s US, Warns Donald Tusk

EU Must Plan for the Worst with Trump’s US, Warns Donald Tusk
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President of the European Council Donald Tusk told the EU countries to prepare for the "worst case scenarios" as relations with the US under Donald Trump rapidly deteriorate.

EU Must Plan for the Worst with Trump’s US, Warns Donald Tusk

Tusk wrote to EU states setting out his concern amid a growing trade war, but said "divisions" also go further and that Trump's behavior threatens the West's unity.

Senior EU officials at a briefing later in the day fleshed out his message, saying the US president's approach to international politics is "very dangerous" and represented the start of a new "worrying" American doctrine.

It comes ahead of a European Council summit at which Tusk is expected to give a speech recounting fractious events at the G7 summit where world leaders argued with Trump over trade tariffs.

Tusk has always been criticizing Trump, using his Twitter account to challenge the US President's policies.

But in his letter to EU leaders, he lamented repeated failed attempts to keep transatlantic relations stable.

Tusk told them: "Despite our tireless efforts to keep the unity of the West, transatlantic relations are under immense pressure due to Trump's policies.

The consequences of Trump's trade war with Europe deepened earlier this week when Harley-Davidson announced it would move some manufacturing out of the US to avoid EU tariffs.

The conflict was first sparked when Trump hit steel imports, coming into the US, with tariffs, after which the EU imposed its own duties.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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