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		</div><p>The European Parliament&#8217;s chief Brexit negotiator says Donald Trump poses a serious threat to the EU because he is working with far-right groups on the continent to engineer the bloc&#8217;s disintegration.<br />
Guy Verhofstadt said that the EU has &#8220;fewer friends than ever in the United States today&#8221;.</p>
<p>He said President Trump and his advisers had joined with European far-right movements in &#8220;undermining the EU&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Trump himself had spoken &#8220;very favourably of the fact that other countries will want to break away&#8221; from the 28-member bloc after the UK.</p>
<p>Mr Verhofstadt says Mr Trump is one of three threats facing the EU, along with radicalised political Islam and Russian President Vladimir Putin.</p>
<p>Mr Putin, he says, is trying to undermine the EU with cyber-attacks and financing anti-European far-right political parties, including the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands and France&#8217;s National Front.</p>
<p>Referring to Brexit, Mr Verhofstadt said Mr Trump has, under the &#8220;enormous political influence of his chief political adviser Steve Bannon, sent people to Berlin and Paris to prepare the ground for similar referenda.</p>
<p>Asked about what he referred to as Trump&#8217;s &#8220;anti-Muslim&#8221; policy to ban refugees and citizens of selected Muslim-majority countries from entering the US, Mr Verhofstadt said Mr Trump has been influenced by the European far-right rather than the other way round.</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;We invented nationalism in the 19th century in Europe but we apparently have forgotten what disaster, what atrocities that so-called national identity thinking and nationalism has created in Europe.</p>
<p>&#8220;The problem is not national identity itself, it&#8217;s when national identity is based on ethnicity and not values, that the problems start in Europe.</p>
<p>&#8220;Twenty million people have died because of nationalism in Europe.</p>
<p>&#8220;So putting your political thinking and the future organisation of Europe on nationalist ideas is the most stupid thing that you can do. It&#8217;s playing with fire, knowing what it has created in the past.&#8221;</p>
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