In 2017, however, which saw the 70th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, Trump welcomed Brexit and expressed the hope that more countries would follow the British example and leave the EU. During a visit to Warsaw, in July 2017, he encouraged the Polish government in what he seemed to consider its brave resistance against the Brussels bureaucracy. In June 2018, Trump’s newly appointed ambassador to Germany went so far as to say that he would try to empower conservatives (read: Trump allies) across Europe. The EU cannot just dismiss this: such an attitude at the highest level of our most
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