| Author (Person) | Bond, Ian |
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| Series Title | CER Bulletin |
| Series Details | No. 120, June/July 2018 |
| Publication Date | 30/05/2018 |
| Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
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Further information Relations between the United States and the EU and its European allies were further strained by events at the 44th G7 Summit, 8-9 June 2018, Charlevoix, Canada.The Atlantic hurricane season did not officially start until June 1st, but US President Donald Trump’s decision on 8 May 2018 to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – the Iran nuclear deal – had triggered an early transatlantic storm. Even if Trump turned out to be a one-off, and America reverted to the mean after him, neither Europe nor the US should take the survival of the transatlantic partnership for granted. But for the foreseeable future, the two sides of the Atlantic would still have more interests and values that united them than that divided them. There was no more sense in a ‘Europe first’ policy than in Trump’s ‘America first’ approach. The right response for Europe in the face of the current administration’s unilateralism was to work with transatlanticists in the US to preserve as much as possible of the partnership, so that once Hurricane Donald had blown over – whether that is in 2021 or 2025 – there were still strong foundations on which to rebuild. |
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| Source Link | http://cer.eu/publications/archive/bulletin-article/2018/trump-and-europe-atlantic-hurricane-season |
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| Countries / Regions | Europe, United States |
