Never before have Europeans heard sentences like this one from the White House: “The European Union. Sounds so nice, right? They are brutal…They formed in order to take advantage of us on trade.” Other presidents have also taken the United States’ European allies to task or been wary of the EU as an institution, but Trump is the first to see the transatlantic relationship as a “bad deal” for his country, whereby the Americans are ripped off by their supposed friends.
The Next Two Years in EU-U.S. Relations
Transatlantic relations have been in a permanent state of emergency since President Donald Trump took office in 2017: for the first time since World War II, a U.S. president is not only calling into question his country’s security guarantee for Europe but also being openly skeptical of, if not hostile to, the EU.
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Puglierin, Jana. “The Next Two Years in EU-U.S. Relations.” April 2019.In: Transatlantic Security Cooperation Toward 2020, Policy Paper, 25.03.2019, 18 p.
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