When Angela Merkel meets with Donald Trump on Friday, she wonât just be representing Germany. Sheâll be bringing all the hopes and anxieties of an anxious continentâone whose fears have been stoked by the fervor sweeping from Amsterdam to Rome, Paris to Berlin. Itâs no exaggeration to say that this meeting between Trump and Merkel could set the tone for the very future of the Western Alliance.
For a specter is haunting Europeâthe specter of populist nationalism. Ideologically indeterminate, it manifests across the Continent in the form of Franceâs right-wing National Front, the post-communist German Left party and the Italian Five …read more
Source: European Voice