The second Trump administration has signaled occasional hostility to Europeans and the European Union in ways unprecedented in American government practice since the beginnings of European integration in the 1950s. At the same time, the European Union has embarked on new initiatives that express unity and clarity of purpose, such as a $100 billion commitment of financial assistance to Ukraine, including for military purposes, and the conclusion of a landmark trade agreement with the South American customs union Mercosur.
Is America’s intermittent adversarial stance weakening or strengthening… …read more
