Washington: Europe is being led by “weak” people and has become a “decaying” group of nations, US President Donald Trump has said in an interview to Politico.
“I think they’re weak ... But I also think that they want to be so politically correct,” Trump said at the White House in the interview published on Tuesday. “I think they don’t know what to do. Europe doesn’t know what to do.”
Warning that some European states “will not be viable countries any longer” without changes in border policy, Trump claimed cities such as London and Paris were creaking under the pressure of migration from the Middle East and Africa, Xinhua news agency reported.
The US President also dismissed the effectiveness of European leaders in efforts to end the Ukraine crisis. “They talk, but they don’t produce, and the war just keeps going on and on,” he said, adding that Russia was “obviously” in a stronger position than Ukraine while reiterating his call for fresh elections in the country.
In the National Security Strategy unveiled last Thursday, the Trump administration pledged to “cultivate resistance” to the European status quo on immigration and other politically sensitive issues.
Responding to the document, European Council President Antonio Costa said on Monday that “allies do not threaten to interfere in the democratic life or the domestic political choices of these allies”.
(Inputs from IANS)