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By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) Top European Union officials meeting Donald Trump for the first time on Thursday will push cooperation on global trade and fighting climate change as they try to show that the bloc should matter to the United States. But Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker, who run the EUs main political institutions in Brussels, expect a less fraught encounter than they might have done a few months ago when Trump was praising Britain for its shock decision to quit the EU and forecasting other countries would follow suit. Not only do EU officials believe Trump has heard other, more positive assessments of the EUs value to Washington since he took office in January, but the failure of anti-EU nationalists in recent Dutch and French elections had bolstered the bloc. Since the first contacts much has changed in the EU, a senior EU official said on Wednesday, referring to unpromising and brief discussions with Trump early in the year. After the Dutch and the French elections we are in a completely different place in the EU and I think this is the starting point of this discussion. In January, Tusk referred to Trump as a threat to the world order alongside Russia, China and radical Islam. The EU will again press the new president, on his first trip abroad, not to roll back on transatlantic efforts to promote free trade or on U.S. commitments to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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