New Delhi, April 10 -- Donald Trump Jr. lashed out at the European Union on Tuesday, saying its liberal policies were discouraging investment and predicted a "major fracture" between the bloc's eastern and western member states.

The eldest child of the U.S. president said that "the biggest players, the biggest names in banking and finance, in tech and AI across the board" believe that "Europe is a disaster," but "the disaster that they feel also needs to be fixed."

"The only way it gets fixed, though, in my opinion is if they (Europe) get out of of their own way," Trump Jr. said during a business discussion in the northwestern Bosnian city of Banja Luka, according to video recordings provided by the official television RTRS television....