It will be harder to keep the West united toward Russia with Donald Trump as United States president than it has been with Barack Obama, European Council President Donald Tusk said in comments published on Thursday.
Trump’s election promise to improve Washington’s chilly relations with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin have caused jitters within the EU, particularly in eastern member states like Poland and the Baltics.
Putin seemed to respond to Trump in his annual state of the nation address on Thursday, saying Moscow wanted to get along with the incoming U.S. administration and was looking to make friends not enemies.
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Source: Voice of America