Trump urges Europe to change course before it's too late

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President Donald Trump delivered his most forceful critique of Europe yet in a new National Security Strategy released quietly early Friday.

The strategy lays out a sweeping recalibration of U.S. policy toward Europe, urging European governments to reclaim national sovereignty, restore open debate, secure their borders, and reduce reliance on what Washington calls the EU’s centralized bureaucracy in Brussels.

In the document, the president portrays Europe as an over-regulated, increasingly censorious bloc that has lost “self-confidence” and is facing “civilizational erasure” because of years of uncontrolled immigration.

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It accuses Europe of leaning heavily on American power while refusing to take responsibility for its own security and its long-term direction.

The new policy document argues that European institutions “undermine political liberty and sovereignty,” that speech restrictions and sweeping regulations suppress democratic discourse, and that immigration policies have fractured social cohesion, according to the text of the strategy.

It cites collapsing birth rates and fading national identities as evidence that Europe is heading toward a demographic and cultural breaking point.

“Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less,” the document warns.

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