The European Union's primary Brexit negotiator recently returned to London after a visit to the United States and announced that in addition to Islamist terrorism and Russian President Vladimir Putin, there is a third threat to a united Europe: President Donald Trump.
"Trump spoke very favorably of the fact that also other countries will want to break away from the European Union, and that he hoped for a disintegration of the European Union," said the negotiator, Guy Verhofstadt, according to the German publication DW.
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