Former Swedish PM: Trump supports 'dark forces'

Former Swedish foreign minister and prime minister Carl Bildt has called Donald Trump's election 'the end of the West as we know it'.

"If you listen to what Donald Trump has been saying during and before his campaign, this is the end of the West as we know it," he adds.

"By design or by default, Trump transmits a signal of support to those dark forces in various countries trying to undo what generations of US and European statesmen have worked to achieve," Bildt said, commenting on Trump's desire to receive the jubilant British anti-Europe campaigner Nigel Farage before seeing other foreign politicians.

The list of European concerns also includes his talk of abrogating the Paris global climate agreement, undermining the Iran deal, questioning important free-trade agreements, relations with NATO and Russia.

Carl Bildt stressed that Europe certainly has nothing against good relations with Russia, but "they have to be based on rolling back aggression against Ukraine, ceasing silent cyber-operations and respecting the rules agreed upon between nations".