European policymakers had restrained expectations about their relations with the United States under Joe Biden’s presidency, but they have nevertheless been disappointed. The end of Donald Trump’s years in the White House, and the belief that Biden was a committed Atlanticist and multilateralist, led many Europeans to hope that the US would pull back from […]
EU-US: Love no more
Despite their expectations – however lukewarm they may have been – that relations between the US and the EU would take a more cooperative turn with Joe Biden at the helm of the American administration, European policymakers are now facing a huge disenchantment. And they must come to terms with the fact that not only their priorities do not always converge with those of the US, but that their approach to multilateral cooperation is fundamentally different from the one sustained by Washington.
In this dossier, the Progressive Post looks at how, against this backdrop, European policymakers could turn this disenchantment into an opportunity to strengthen the European project, by developing a European defence capacity and decreasing the EU’s dependence on the US for its security.
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Progressives have long been arch defenders and advocates of the European project, pushing the EU to strengthen its union and advance European integration. Yet when it comes to EU defence, progressives have been less vocal. Perhaps this is down to defence being seen as the domain of conservatives and progressives prioritising domestic spending. But strengthening […]
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