Europe must form new links to stand up to Trump’s America

Trump aims to destroy Europe’s social, economic, and democratic model. He must be stopped

Donald Trump's goal is to build an authoritarian, illiberal world order. He wants to dismantle his own country’s democratic state; establish transactional alliances with the world’s major illiberal regimes; and create an impregnable North American fortress by establishing US sovereignty over Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal.  Picture: Adrian Wyld /The Canadian Press via AP

On May 2, the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution determined that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) warrants classification as a far-right, extremist party. 

In response, US president Donald Trump’s secretary of state, Marco Rubio, defended the AfD and condemned the decision as an act of “tyranny in disguise”.