After U.S. President Donald Trump’s clashes with Europe this week over the fate of Greenland, the question on my mind—and surely on the minds of many European leaders—is whether the episode will be a turning point in the transatlantic relationship. As Matthias Matthijs and Nathalie Tocci put it in our most recent issue, when Trump returned to office, the EU and its member states had the option to either “push back collectively or choose the path of least resistance and give in to Trump,” and they largely picked the latter. But appeasement, Matthijs and Tocci argued, is “a self-defeating trap” because it feeds “far-right forces that want to see a weaker EU.” They called on Europe to break out of this harmful cycle—and their discussion of how to do it has become all the more relevant as the continent mulls its next steps.
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