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The Donald Trump administration would be committing “sheer folly” if it supports the European Union’s breakup as it seems to be doing, the outgoing US ambassador to the EU warned Friday.

“To think that by supporting fragmentation of Europe we would be advancing our interests would be sheer folly. It’s lunacy,” Gardner said, hailing seven decades of transatlantic peace and prosperity.

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