MILWAUKEE (WTAQ) – Governor Scott Walker plans to take a second trade mission to Europe this year.
The Republican Walker told a gathering of manufacturers in Milwaukee Thursday that he’ll go to France, Germany, and Spain in about a month-and-a-half.
This comes after Walker’s trade mission to London earlier this month. He also expects to go to Israel later this year.
Walker has stepped up his foreign travel as he considers a run for the presidency next year. He recently sidestepped questions about foreign policy when he spoke before a London think tank, saying it would not be right for him to address such matters on foreign soil.
However, Walker plans to highlight the subject this weekend when he speaks at a major conservative conference in Washington.
The governor told reporters Thursday he’ll address growing safety concerns. As Walker put it, “Increasingly, Americans are worried and want to make sure that we take the fight to them, before they take it to us when it comes to radical Islamic terrorists in and around the world.”
The governor recently said the U.S. may need “boots on the ground” in Syria to address terrorist concerns there.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
