ELECTION CALENDAR IN EUROPE

  1. November 20+27, 2016: Center Right Primaries in France
  2. December 4, 2016: Italian Referendum on Constitutional Reform
  3. December 4, 2016: Austrian Presidential Election
  4. End of 2016: Target Greek Debt Restructuring
  5. January 22+ 29, 2017: Socialist Primaries in France
  6. March 15, 2017: General Elections in the Netherlands
  7. March 26, 2017: German State Election in Saarland

PRESIDENT ELECT DONALD TRUMP AND LOBBYING REFORM

THE CHALLENGE OF EUROPE VIS-A-VIS THE NEW PRESIDENT ELECT

Whether Europe will rise to the Trump challenge is not a foregone conclusion. Of course, it should. Trump’s victory has manifold implications for Europe and the transatlantic relationship.

Europe needs to prepare for all scenarios: security and defense, European unity, foreign policy, trade, climate change, the basics of transatlantic cooperation, are all up for potential shake-up which will leave European states and institutions struggling to adjust.

HOW TRUMP DID IT???

Donald Trump campaigned as neither a staunch evangelical conservative, nor an establishment-friendly pragmatist.  Instead he ran as a furiously populist, anti-establishment nationalist. Trump’s supporters saw him as a strong, independent-minded leader, capable of bringing needed change to Washington. For these particular voters, Trump’s brash, combative style, his war on “political correctness,” his outsider status, and his scathing attacks on the elites of both parties were all assets, not liabilities.

EXTRACT FROM PRESIDENT ELECT'S VICTORY SPEECH

"Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division, have to get together. To all Republicans and Democrats and independents across this nation, I say it is time for us to come together as one united people. I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be President for all of Americans, and this is so important to me. For those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of which there were a few people, I'm reaching out to you for your guidance and your help so that we can work together and unify our great country.

PRESIDENT ELECT TRUMP TRANSITION TEAM WHO's WHO

President-elect Trump will have about 4,000 government positions to fill, including some of the most important posts in the US government. His team has been at work coming up with possible candidates for the top jobs, but there is a smaller universe of Republicans who were close to his campaign. Much of the Washington establishment kept him at arms length. Others, including some former GOP cabinet secretaries, rejected him entirely. 

Transition Team

THE UPRISING OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  1. The power of ordinary people to control the U.S. is getting weaker every day, as political leaders on both sides, fight to protect their own power and privilege, at the expense of the nation’s well being. The U.S. needs to restore what it believes in- real democracy by the people and real free enterprise.
  2. The U.S. is run by an alliance of incumbent politicians, media pundits, lobbyists and other powerful money interests for their own gain at the expense of the American people.

TRUMP’S MUST-WINS STATES

Most plausible paths to victory for Trump start with holding onto two battlegrounds  North Carolina and Arizona -- and flipping three states : Florida, Ohio and Iowa.

WHERE DOES MRS CLINTON STAND ON FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES?

GROSS NEGLIGENCE VERSUS EXTREME CARELESS

The FBI investigation of Mrs Clinton looked at whether there was evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on her personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities.

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