Just when you thought things couldn’t get much worse for the European Union after Britain’s vote to leave the bloc, along comes Donald Trump.
The anti-establishment Republican outsider’s upset election victory is a giant setback for the EU’s vision of a global order with a rules-based governance system, evidence-based policy, open trade, social diversity, free movement of people and joint action to fight climate change and promote collective security and development.
Trump’s worldview — in as much as one is detectable — seems closer to the Hobbesian “war of all against all,” in which power and tribe count for more than cooperation …read more
Source: European Voice
