Transcript: Finland's president on Europe in a Trumpian world

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : And, of course, she has a good connection with President Trump as well.
70% : Because they do believe that Trump is going to be a strong supporter of Ukraine.
70% : And what Trump wants is peace.
68% : And that's, I mean, in many ways the good thing with Trump that you can predict what's coming out of there.
60% : Ukraine should have the right to choose EU and Nato.Gideon RachmanAnd Zelenskyy himself, you saw him last night.
56% : I know there is a lot of, you know, discussion, public discourse about whether America is going to continue to support Ukraine.
55% : I mean, Trump did say in his inaugural that he wants to be a peacemaker.
53% : This week's podcast is about Europe's place in the world as Donald Trump returns to the White House and Russia presses forward in Ukraine.
52% : And in my mind, no one should ever question the right, the sovereign right of Ukraine to choose where it wants to be.
44% : And, you know, we probably live in a world where the United States will not lean on traditional big global multilateral institutions such as the UN, such as the WHO, which they have just gone from, such as the WTO, IMF or the World Bank.
42% : I mean, isn't Trump essentially trying to promote the far right in Europe and what can we do about that and what should we say?Alexander Stubb
40% : And when he has American support and, of course, Trump trying to find a deal and he has European support.
39% : But one of the things that Trump is doing, well the people he's reaching out to in Europe are people who often have a very different attitude to Russia to the one that you've just expounded.
37% : Gideon RachmanI mean, you say that nobody has the right to tell Ukraine that they can't join Nato, they can't join the EU.
31% : Does it ever worry you that you might have joined Nato just as the organisation is kind of falling apart because Donald Trump is president and at times he's talked very disdainfully of Nato?Alexander StubbNo, I actually look at it with the glass half full.
16% : And I think Donald Trump is actually pushing that.
15% : So you painted a relatively benign picture of Donald Trump.

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