{"id":438093,"date":"2025-12-10T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/438093\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:23:14","slug":"pope-urges-trump-not-to-break-apart-us-europe-relationship-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/438093\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope urges Trump not to \u2018break apart\u2019 US-Europe relationship\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/09\/trump-dasha-burns-interview-europe-immigration-ukraine-00682016?nid=0000018f-3124-de07-a98f-3be4d1400000&amp;nname=politico-toplines&amp;nrid=eb740dde-b652-4e7b-8332-2cf1ad950711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slammed Europe as poorly governed and failing to regulate migration<\/a>\u00a0in an interview with\u00a0POLITICO\u2019s Dasha Burns\u00a0that aired\u00a0Tuesday in\u00a0a special episode of The Conversation podcast.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they\u2019re weak,\u201d\u00a0Trump said,\u00a0referring to the continent\u2019s presidents and prime ministers,\u00a0adding,\u00a0\u201cI think they\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0know\u00a0what\u00a0to do. Europe\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0know what\u00a0to do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo\u00a0added\u00a0the Trump administration\u2019s\u00a0peace plan for Ukraine\u00a0\u201cunfortunately\u201d\u00a0marks\u00a0\u201ca huge change in what was for many, many years a true alliance between Europe and the United States.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s proposal\u00a0to end the war, which\u00a0sidelined Brussels and\u00a0included several major concessions to Russia, including ceding vast swathes of Ukrainian territory and capping the size of its military,\u00a0drew alarm from Kyiv and its\u00a0European\u00a0allies and led to frenzied negotiations in Geneva to\u00a0come up with an alternative framework.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0a program that President Trump and his advisers put together.\u00a0He\u2019s\u00a0the president of the United States\u00a0and he has a right to do that,\u201d Pope Leo added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0the Catholic leader\u00a0said brokering peace talks \u201cwithout including Europe\u201d was \u201cunrealistic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump\u00a0slammed Europe as poorly governed and failing to regulate migration\u00a0in an interview with\u00a0POLITICO\u2019s Dasha Burns\u00a0that aired\u00a0Tuesday in\u00a0a special&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":438094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25819,20936,69,1802,2852,50,20211,3417,365,257,4995,37643,67,32322,3656,131,275,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-438093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-borders","9":"tag-catholic","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-military","12":"tag-negotiations","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pope-francis","15":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","16":"tag-religion","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-security","19":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-venezuela","22":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","23":"tag-war","24":"tag-war-in-ukraine","25":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115695964436252968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}