Politics

Viviane Reding: Europe 'needed Brexit and Trump'

Member of European Parliament looks back over past year, attacks Luxembourg's ruling coalition

22.01.2018

Europeans "needed" Brexit and controversial US president Donald Trump to better understand exactly what sort of European Union (EU) they want, according to Viviane Reding, a Luxembourg Member of the European Parliament (MEP).

Looking back over the year, the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) candidate for the October elections argued that a strong Europe was the way forward and that "Luxembourg politics is European politics" and vice versa.