Trump could WIPE OUT the EU – populist tide could be HAMMER BLOW to Brussels, Lord says
DONALD TRUMP’s election as US president and a rising “populist tide” could deliver a “hammer blow” to the European Union, a Tory peer has claimed.
By GREG HEFFER, POLITICAL REPORTER
Express.co.uk
Mon, Nov 14, 2016
The Marquess of Salisbury suggested Brussels bosses “will soon find out” whether the bloc is equipped to survive a series of potential rejections at the ballot box as early as next month.
Following President-elect Trump’s shock victory over Hillary Clinton last week, Lord Salisbury highlighted elections in France, Germany and the Netherlands in 2017 as “a huge year in the history of Europe and of the EU”.
Far-right politicians, all sceptical of the EU, are currently riding high in polls in each of those three major European countries.
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders and Germany’s anti-migrant Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party have all hailed President-elect Trump’s success as a sign their far-right politics could sweep to success next year.
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