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A leading contender to be U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the European Union says the bloc is anti-American and the U.S. will try to build bilateral relationships with European countries instead. Ted Malloch tells the AP the U.S. is “critical and suspicious” of the EU project. […] EU parliamentarians have taken the unusual step of writing a letter, calling his views “outrageously malevolent.” …

Ted Malloch, President Donald Trump’s reported choice of US ambassador to the EU, predicts “seismic shifts” in transatlantic ties and the bloc’s disintegration, in comments to a German news weekly published Friday. After last year’s Brexit vote for Britain to leave the EU, he told Der Spiegel that “you can almost put any two letters in front of the word exit”, suggesting any of the other 27 member states could be next. […] He said Trump preferred to deal bilaterally with European countries rather than the bloc as whole, adding that “frankly, this also gives us the upper hand”. He...