Amid the many reactions filling our newsfeeds in response to the news that Donald Trump has been re-elected as the 47th President of the United States, one that catches my eye for both its regularity and the desperation of its tone comes from European accounts, insisting that now is the time for Europe to get its act together and stand on its own two feet.

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