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The US is a whole lot richer because of trade with Europe, regardless of whether EU is friend or 'foe'

  • Written by Greg Wright, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced
Trump and Merkel: Friends, foes or frenemies?AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

President Donald Trump recently questioned the value of the long-standing United States-Europe alliance. When asked to identify his “biggest foe globally,” he declared: “I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade.”

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