NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte met U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday in Florida as the military alliance prepares for the real estate mogul’s return to power. In a statement published Saturday, NATO said the two met in Palm Beach and discussed “the range of global security issues facing the alliance.” The meeting appeared to be the first time Rutte has met with Trump since the former president’s reelection earlier this month. It comes amid rising fears among European countries over Trump’s impact on the alliance, given his previous comments questioning the value of NATO and threatening not to defend members…
Author: Victor Jack
BRUSSELS — Romania’s ultranationalist wannabe president, George Simion, has two role models he hopes offer a winning formula: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. “We are sort of a Trumpist party,” the 38-year-old leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party said, but “it is not by chance that I am happy for my party being in the same political family as Meloni.” Italy’s hard-right prime minister restored “hope for Italians … in the European project,” Simion told POLITICO in an interview. “What we have seen is … a Melonization” of Europe, he…