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Trump needs prison space - can Europe help him out?  As the European Union scrambles to find bargaining chips for future trade talks with the Trump administration, there is something Brussels could offer to catch the US president’s attention: prison space.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/05/12/trump-needs-prison-space-can-europe-help-him-out  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Hi, I'm Stefan Grobe. I want to talk to you about Donald Trump's trade war with Europe.

00:06Yes, again. You know that the European Union is scrambling to find something, anything,

00:12to throw at him in future negotiations. Something that can sway him, that can change his mind,

00:18because as you know, so far he doesn't budge. So here's my idea. Let's give him something

00:25that he desperately wants and that Europe could offer him. And that is prison space. Yes, you

00:32heard that right. Remember that mega prison in El Salvador where he deported hundreds of

00:38undocumented migrants? Now that prison is becoming too small for Trump's vision because he wants to

00:44incarcerate U.S. criminals there as well. Really, really bad people, as he told the Salvadorian

00:50president. So, domestic criminals in foreign jails? Is that even legally possible? Well,

00:57we're looking into that, Trump said. Apparently, that legal research hasn't brought any clear answer

01:03yet because Trump was then looking at rebuilding Alcatraz. Remember Alcatraz? Burt Lancaster?

01:10Clint Eastwood? Yes, that famous prison island in San Francisco Bay. In other words, he needs more

01:18prison space. And here's where the EU comes in. Because if it's island prisons Trump is looking

01:25for, Europe has plenty to offer. I know of three. Let's start with the Chateau d'If of the coast of

01:33Marseille. You know the Count of Monte Cristo and all that? It would need some serious patching up,

01:39but it's pretty safe. And Trump would need to deal with his pal Emmanuel Macron and not with Brussels

01:45bureaucrats or the obnoxious Germans. Then there is Devil's Island, also French, but off the coast of

01:51French Guayana in South America, closer to Trump. Remember, Henri Charrière wrote the best-selling

01:58novel Papillon about his successful escape from there. Devil's Island would also need some serious

02:04rebuilding, but it's okay. Trump is saving a lot of money right now. And finally, a place called

02:10Goli Otok, also a former prison island off the coast of Croatia. It used to be a prison camp under

02:17Tito, but today it's in ruins, a little like Alcatraz. Goli Otok means barren island, because it's

02:25completely devoid of vegetation. You get the idea. So if this prisons for tariffs pitch fails, Europe could

02:34point Trump to the criminal justice system in the Netherlands, where the prison population shrank

02:39drastically over the past 20 years. Why? Largely because of rehabilitation efforts. Some empty

02:46prisons have even been repurposed as hotels. And this might appeal to the real estate mogul in Trump.

02:55Thanks for watching. See you soon.

Trump needs prison space - can Europe help him out?

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