Obama's last trip: Addressing a divided Europe

Obama's last trip: Addressing a divided Europe By Atika Shubert, CNN Updated 1321 GMT (2121 HKT) November 16, 2016 Obama, Trump: The view from Greece 01:00 Story highlights President Obama to meet leaders of Italy, France, Germany and the UK on Friday Obama will meet one-on-one with Merke The white pillars of the Parthenon, which sits at the top of the Acropolis, still stand strong 2,500 years on - a symbolic testament to the enduring idea of a government by and for the people. In the words of the Athenian general Pericles, "a government in the hands of the many, not the few." This time, President Obama comes to Europe as the defeated champion of two causes lost to democratic votes: opposition both to the election of Donald Trump as President and "Brexit," the British vote to leave the European Union. For both the US and the EU, these are uncharted waters: how will President-elect Trump -- the only candidate in US history to have won without any experience in government, the law or the military -- deal with Europe, but especially the European Union? Perhaps nothing spoke to EU fears more clearly than the photograph tweeted by Brexit champion and leader of the UK's anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) Nigel Farage, grinning inside a golden Trump Tower elevator, getting a thumbs up from the President-elect himself.