Trump’s First 100 Days: EU-US Relations

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US President Trump has been sitting in the Oval Office for a hundred days, and he has been mixing the world and the economy for a hundred days. Unpredictable, authoritarian and imperial – His government style is described with these adjectives.

Europe is with one „clear and present Danger“ confronted how they “None of us saw in his life”wrote the EU President of the Leyen after Trump had changed course in Ukraine policy.

“Europe will react, immediately and determined”, explained commission vice séjourné when Trump new US tariffs of 25 percent threatened. Of course, Europe’s economy will be protected, it said in Brussels.

Is the dependency too big?

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Everything hot air. The economy is defenseless two months later – because the EU has suspended the promised countermeasures. Instead of string back, you want to negotiate. Of the “Acute danger“There is no longer any question from Washington.

On the contrary: The Leyen, Federal President Steinmeier and Chancellor in Spe Merz, “Transatlantic cooperation” And known for the US-led NATO. It is even anchored in the coalition agreement for the new federal government.

Europe is clinging to the USA – despite Trump. The Republican likes the same way Russia-friendly and hostile to the EU Being – without the United States, the Europeans don’t want to be. Or can you not? Is the dependency too big?

Everything to please Trump

The reports that we present below speak for this. Despite the talk of “Strategic autonomy” and “European sovereignty”The EU does everything to please Trump – To upgradingthat is now a program.

One should therefore not be imported by the new, from France Narrative emancipation Leave. The EU only pretends to resist Trump; In truth, she tries to involve it.

However, she can also be guided by Ukraine and President Selenskyj. Instead of formulating and pursuing European interests, the Europeans try one impossible balancing act; The “FT” warns of a tear test.

The Ukraine question could “Break western alliance”writes the British leaf. If not everything is deceptive, it should come to the oath soon …

See also clear edge against Trump, out of NATO? Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that! And independently: “Coalition of the willing” slips under the roof of NATO

News & Updates

• EU Commission wants to buy more gas in the USA: Energy Commissioner Jorgensen demands more liquid gas imports from the USA. “We are obviously still dependent on Russian gas. This is unbearable for political, security policy and moral reasons”said the Danish politician to the “Europe Table”. The EU would get out of Russian gas entirely, said Jorgensen. Therefore you have to buy more LNG in America. – Meanwhile, Trump demands that the EU import oil and gas worth $ 350 billion-almost six times as much as before …
• No decoupling US digital corporations: The EU says goodbye to the goal of “digital sovereignty”. This is suggested by a report by “Politico” on the new, not yet published digital strategy. “Decoupling is unrealistic and cooperation will remain significant across the technological value chain,” it says in a design. – The EU countries are even considering taking out US companies from the global minimum tax to appease Trump. That would be the next knee …
• Merz wants free trade with the USA. CDU boss Merz is committed to ensuring that Brussels and Washington agree on the dismantling of all tariffs. “I don’t want us to enter into an open trade war”, the designated Chancellor said at the small CDU federal party conference. He advocates that the EU offer the United States, “That we best go to zero, with all customs sets”. – We are excited to see when this position takes over from the Leyen. She is now sitting with him in a boat …

The last

A young transatlantic in the Chancellery: The old transatlantic Merz wants to rely on the founder of the “Initiative of Young Transatlantic” in his work in the Chancellery. His name is Jacob Schrot – and becomes an office manager. Don’t you know him? This is how he presents himself: From May 2014 to May 2016, Schrot was President of the Association of German-American Club. During a one-year research stay at the American University in Washington, DC, he worked for German Marshall Fund and the US Congress on foreign policy issues. His greatest success so far: victory in the ZDF program “I can Chancellor”. That was in 2019. Six years later, he should advise the Chancellor – of course entirely on a transatlantic line …

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