Elmar Brok, Wikipedia
EU Foreign Affairs chair ‘afraid’ of Trump
The head of the EU Parliament's foreign affairs committee says he is "afraid" of what the US election campaign has become.
Published: November 5, 2016, 8:04 am
Washington
Elmar Brok told Deutsche Welle the US election race “scares” him, because Trump might win. The prospect of a Trump presidency is worrying Brok who was hoping for a Clinton victory.
Brok is currently visiting the US ahead of the vote on November 8, and spoke to Michael Knigge in Washington.
He says the final days of the campaign from a European perspective, has “astonished” him and he is “afraid of this type of campaign which has nothing to do with issues, but is just personal questions and attacking each other. It is just lying in many cases and I think it is a big danger for democracy overall”.
According to the EU official this kind of campaigning has started in Europe too, with “the whole populist campaign in Europe” giving rise to rightwing parties and Brexit.
Brok is still hoping for a Clinton win, but he admits that Trump’s type of campaigning seems to be working.
He believes Hillary Clinton is a politician “who has an understanding of Europe, who has the experience and with whom we can develop the relationship between Europe and the United States off the base that we have built over the last 70 years”.
Surprisingly Brok is not the least bit worried about the Clinton’s unbridled corruption WikiLeaks has exposed, where foreign powers paid the Clinton Foundation for undue influence.
Brok worries that if Trump comes to power, the EU might expect some unwelcome changes. “We do not know [what Trump will do]. And when I see how convinced he is that we have to change the system here, we could get some more surprises we do not like.”
Brok is chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament and a member of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
In 2013, Brok told Reuters he was against German plans to hold national referendums for major decisions on Europe. He argued that “[i]f this was implemented in Germany, it would be seen abroad as putting an end to further development of the EU, the EU would become ineffective”.
As a member of the Convention on the Constitution for Europe and in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Brok is widely credited with contributing crucially to the Constitution of the European Union.
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