Célia Belin

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“What has become increasingly clear is that Trump's team sees Europe as a parasitic freeloading ally and its liberal democracies as political and ideological adversaries. But this is so contradictory to everything the United States has stood for that we are bound to ask: Can America really tilt this way? Just as Mr. Trump appears determined to weaken checks and balances at home, he is seeking to replicate that externally, dispensing with any rules-based or values-based order. Anything that is a check on whatever he wants to do on whatever day, including Article 5, is something he may tear up. What counts in Trump world are power and interests. For Europe the choice may come down to this: Show teeth or give him what he wants.”

Nytimes

Head of the Paris office of the European Council on Foreign relations