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For decades, the US and the UK have starved education, health care and other public services that gave disadvantaged people the chance of a better life

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Beware of Trump's tricks in Europe

In September 2019, when the news broke that president Donald Trump would suspend financial support to Ukraine unless president Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to dig up dirt about Joe Biden and his son, Trump's Russia and Europe adviser Fiona Hill happened to be in the UK, visiting her mother.

Washington was in shock. Many people tried to reach Hill: a president abusing his office to get at his rival, how could that happen? Did she know more?

But Hill was virtually unreachable. Her mot...

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Caroline de Gruyter is a Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. This column is an edited version of an earlier piece in NRC.

For decades, the US and the UK have starved education, health care and other public services that gave disadvantaged people the chance of a better life

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Caroline de Gruyter is a Europe correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. This column is an edited version of an earlier piece in NRC.

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