Trump’s unpredictable European tour

Nerves are jangling ahead of the Nato summit and a meeting with Putin. Emily Hohler reports.

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There are fears of a "possible two-headed diplomatic assault from Trump" this week as he attends a summit of Nato leaders in Brussels and concludes his European tour with a one-to-one meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, says Michael Birnbaum in The Washington Post. At the Nato summit (and amid simmering disputes with the EU over trade) Trump is expected to continue to lambast Europeans for "slacking" on their defence spending. European leaders worry that he could "bargain away their security in the name of better relations with the Kremlin".

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.