America’s closest overseas allies struggled Tuesday to understand and digest Donald Trump’s emerging foreign policy team.
Rex Tillerson’s move from chief of the world’s most powerful oil company ExxonMobil to nominee to become chief diplomat of the world’s sole superpower elicited a collective gasp in Europe, summed up by the venerable, left-of-center French newspaper Le Monde: “Uncertainty adds itself to the unknown,†it wrote, reporting that Trump, “whose vision of foreign affairs doesn’t stop raising questions … nominated a neophyte to head American diplomacy.”
On a Continent that never fell out of love with Barack Obama or hid its preference for Hillary …read more
Source: European Voice
