Nicolas Sarkozy: Yes to Treaty Change, No to EU Referendum

Author: Anthony Chambers ( PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Manchester and former Civitas intern). Original Text has been edited by AALEP.

Lobbyists are purged from official roles in President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team. The move to get rid of lobbyists in key roles was one of the first decisions made by Vice President-elect Mike Pence in his role overseeing the construction of a Trump administration.

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1. Withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which has not yet been ratified.

2. Appoint tough and smart trade negotiators to fight on behalf of American workers.

3. Direct the Secretary of Commerce to identify every violation of trade agreements a foreign country is currently using to harm our workers, and also direct all appropriate agencies to use every tool under American and international law to end these abuses.

President Barack said during a news conference on his final overseas trip that the President-elect had tapped into a "troubling" strain of rhetoric playing on Americans' fears of globalization to win the presidency. But here are the hard facts about the so-called rhetoric the President-Elect is being wrongly incriminated:  

Outsourcing and Offshoring of American jobs

Strategic communication(s} means the synchronization of words and deeds and how they will be perceived by selected audiences, as well as programs and activities deliberately aimed at communicating and engaging with intended audiences, including those implemented by public affairs, public diplomacy, and information operations professionals.

Communication and engagement should be designed to support policy goals as well as to achieve specific effects to include:

Europe does not know much about President-Elect Trump, other than he is a businessman. Most knowledge about him has come from mainstream U.S. media. However, the election result showed that those reports and descriptions about him have been to a large extent twisted. Europe must escape traditional information channels to understand Trump as President.

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

Proposal

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.