EU reckons with another Trump presidency

“Any additional trade barriers between the EU and the US are going to be really problematic for sectors like the car industry and pharmaceuticals, which rely heavily on exports to the US,” Zach Meyers, assistant director at the Centre for European Reform, told The Parliament. 

...“When you have a European economy that is so heavily reliant on a couple of American firms, Trump could be forced to act in ways that harm European interests,” Meyers said. 

...“Trump in the White House makes them [right-wing and nationalist movements] again seem more credible and respectable,” Luigi Scazzieri, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, told The Parliament. 

...“It makes it seem as if these actors have a privileged line to Trump,” he said. “Countries like Italy, France and Hungary could reap the rewards of that.”