The President of the Jacques Delors Institute and former Prime Minister of Italy, Enrico Letta, said this Wednesday at the Forum Europa in Brussels that he "firmly" hopes that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States again after the elections on 5 November.
During an informative meeting organised by the New Economy Forum in the EU capital, Letta expressed concern about the possible return of the Republican candidate Donald Trump to the White House, if he defeats his rival Kamala Harris at the polls.
Letta said that he “firmly hopes that Trump will not be the next president of the United States, but if he is, we have to be prepared”.
He added that “I think that the second Trump, I fear, will not be the first, he will be worse than the first, for many reasons”.
Regarding how the European Union should respond in the event of Trump's return, he had “no doubt that we have to respond with more integration and openness, not with more protectionism”. However, he considered that “we will have to react when it is necessary to do so”.
Letta recalled that on 4 November, the hearings in the European Parliament of the new commissioners who will accompany Ursula von der Leyen in the EU government will begin, while in those same days “everything will be decided by half a million voters spread across Nebraska, Georgia, Michigan, etc”. “And that will have consequences for us, but my answer is integration and openness”, he stressed.
