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Former UK official: Trump & Putin want Europe divided
AlArabiya English
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4/18/2025
Former UK Minister of State for Europe Denis MacShane says Trump and Putin prefer a divided Europe, making it easier to negotiate with individual states over a united EU.
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Where do you think that comes from, that hatred of Europe?
00:03
Very simply, well, for Mr Putin, it's the same.
00:07
What Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have in common is,
00:11
they want the Europe of the 1920s, 30s back.
00:13
I don't mean, you know, fascists and all that stuff,
00:17
but they want smaller countries that don't cooperate,
00:23
that can be picked off or bought off one by one by one.
00:27
And what Europe's done, and by accident more than great design,
00:31
is to sink a lot of differences.
00:34
And on trade, above all, since day one,
00:38
all trade on behalf of all EU member states,
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doesn't matter if it's mighty industrial Germany,
00:43
it doesn't matter if it's tourist ancient history Greece,
00:47
doesn't matter if it's wonderful cuisine France, Italy,
00:52
all their trade is done by the European Union officials
00:57
working with the national officials,
00:59
so that Europe speaks as one voice.
01:01
And when they do, it's a very, very powerful bloc.
01:05
And so Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin,
01:08
and I'm sure Mr Xi in China,
01:10
would like to see Europe disaggregate again
01:13
into individual nations.
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