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Why a Trump victory will hit Europe hardest
The security impact will be felt even before his inauguration. A three-way trade war involving the US, the EU and China will also be very damaging.
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Then German Chancellor Angela Merkel defiantly confronting then US President Donald Trump at the 2018 summit of the Group of Seven industrialised nations in Canada, while surrounded by other G-7 leaders.
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Who will win the US election on Nov 5 haunts the leaders of most nations. Yet nowhere is the dread about a victory for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump more real and immediate than among the leaders of Europe.
While the rest of the world would at least have until Jan 20, 2025, when the newly elected president is formally inaugurated, before it begins to feel the impact of a new US administration, Europe’s security and political arrangements could be seriously affected the moment Trump’s victory is declared and well before his administration is settled in the White House.
