Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

To win freedom from Trump’s America, Europe needs to overcome its ‘downward coping syndrome’

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par Richard Youngs, Professor of International and European Politics, University of Warwick

The US military operation against Iran has demonstrated in the most dramatic terms the need for EU autonomy in global affairs. Responding to the situation, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has called for a new EU foreign policy to guide the bloc towards “European independence”.

But it is not enough for the EU simply to set itself against the Trump administration. It also needs to resolve a muddled “illiberal liberalism” that afflicts the way it has begun to pursue European autonomy. The EU can’t currently seem to decide whether it seeks independence…

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