Hannelore Veit

Europe-USA: it hasn’t been this exciting for a long time. People in Europe have more or less recovered from the initial shock – now it’s time to put collaboration with the new US president on a new basis. But what does Donald Trump really want? Should one take his statements on Europe seriously or even literally? If so, which of his statements? Even as President, Donald Trump has not ceased to utter contradictions. Europe must find a new modus vivendi with the USA.

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Hannelore Veit
Bureau chief of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ORF in Washington, D.C. Former news anchor at ORF in Vienna, Far East correspondent in Tokyo and East Europe correspondent for the Voice of America. Graduate of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA, and the University of Vienna. [Photo: © ORF]

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