The US and the EU in the new world

Never since the founding of NATO on April 4, 1949, has the election of an American president caused so much uncertainty among Washington's European partners about how to act and cooperate with the new leader of the free world. This is exactly what is happening today after the sweeping victory of Donald Trump.

Of course, Europeans will quickly adapt to the new state of affairs and adopt Trump's choices when they are announced after his inauguration. So, let's be patient, there are only 50 days left until then.

It would be desirable, of course, if some people realized that the European Union and the United States do not constitute an indivisible organic unity, that Washington's role is hegemonic and that outside the American "umbrella" there is no "other world" to which Europe can take refuge. We saw it in Shakespeare's "Coriolanus;" there is no need to experience it.<...