What consequences will Trump’s disclosures have?

The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.

Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks).US President Donald Trump reportedly disclosed highly confidential intelligence material to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the latter's visit to Washington on 10 May 2017. According to US media the information regarding the IS came from an intelligence agency cooperating with the US. Commentators in European newspapers discuss factors leading up to the disclosures and the potential consequences of Trump's faux pas.

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http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html http://archiv.eurotopics.net/en/home/presseschau/aktuell.html

ESO: Background information: Lessons for Europe From One Hundred Days of Trump http://www.europeansources.info/record/lessons-for-europe-from-one-hundred-days-of-trump/

Politico, 16.05.17: European official to AP: Country might stop sharing intel with U.S. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/16/trump-intelligence-sharing-russia-europe-fallout-238442

The Guardian, 16.05.17: Donald Trump 'shared highly classified information with Russian officials' https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/15/donald-trump-shared-classified-information-russia-white-house-report

Euro|Topics: Debates, May 2017: Impeachment for Donald Trump? http://www.eurotopics.net/en/179463/impeachment-for-donald-trump

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