LNegotiations over customs tariffs with Donald Trump are not a simple commercial dispute. This is a full-scale geopolitical test, and the European Union is approaching it in the wrong way. While the White House deployed all of America’s might – tariff threats, diplomatic pressure, security blackmail – Brussels responded with lawyers and Excel tables. The result? The European Union watched its own country weaken, unable to mobilize the political power that could stand up to Trump’s bulldozers.
This problem is not a new problem, but it will become a very acute problem in the future. Europe’s institutional architecture, the result of decades of patient development, rests on…
