Obama’s Eurotrip Aimed at Tripping Up Trump Before He Even Steps Into Office

Friday, November 18, 2016
By Paul Martin

SputnikNews.com
18.11.2016

On Friday, outgoing President Obama held his final meeting with many EU leaders, urging them to prepare for the transfer of power to President-elect Donald Trump. Commenting on the trip’s significance, Russian observers said that it amounts to a signal to the incoming US Congress, State Department and the Pentagon to try and reign in Trump.

In his meeting in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Obama discussed a number of foreign policy issues of concern to the Transatlantic alliance, including Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Libya, and the fight against Daesh (ISIL/ISIS) terrorism.

Speaking to media after the meeting, Chancellor Merkel said that leaders focused a lot of their discussion on instability in the Middle East and North Africa, including the resulting migrant crisis which struck Europe in the last two years. The leaders also discussed the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, including the frozen civil war in the Donbass region. They did not discuss the introduction of new sanctions against Russia, either over Ukraine or Syria, Merkel explained, but apparently did agree to keep existing sanctions in place.

A statement released following the meeting by the White House also stressed that the leaders had “affirmed the importance of continued cooperation through multilateral institutions, including NATO.”

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