BERLIN, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – Europe should face Donald Trump with
“confidence”, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said Monday, after the US president-elect had predicted that more EU members would leave the bloc and charged that NATO was “obsolete”.
“I think we Europeans shouldn’t somehow plunge into a deep, great
depression,” Gabriel told Bild daily ahead of Trump’s inauguration Friday. “I don’t underestimate what Trump says, especially regarding NATO and the EU, but a little bit of self-confidence would serve us well in such a situation.”