@Walter Hinteler,
From Trump's perspective [unfortunately, I have to watch him live just now during the Football World Cup group stage draw at Kennedy Center], one of the main problems on this side of the Atlantic is the ‘activities of the European Union,’ which he believes are stifling ‘political freedom.’ He even claims that ‘censorship of free speech and persecution of political opponents’ can be observed – in Berlin, Rome and Paris,
not in Moscow.
Another controversial point in the 33-page document concerns the priorities of US policy towards Europe: the continent should act as a ‘group of like-minded sovereign nations’ – another sideswipe at the EU and its efforts to grow closer together. One of the US's main priorities is to cultivate ‘resistance to the current course within European nations’.
Does Trump mean direct intervention by his government in the politics of individual European countries? And if so, how?
