Michael McDowell: Migration policy is the EU's biggest weakness and Donald Trump is aiming to exploit it

The result of the Romanian presidential election run-off, in which the centrist Nicusor Dan beat far-right populist George Simion by 53.6 per cent to 46.4 per cent, will be a cause for some relief. It offers hope that Trumpism can be resisted by centre democrats in the member states of the EU. The possibility that Romania would turn away from the EU and towards some engagement with Trumpism, Orbanism and Putinism would have spelt extreme danger for the future of the EU. Likewise, we now look to a Polish presidential run-off election which has perhaps less extreme, but in some…