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President Donald Trump denounced Europe as a “decaying” group of nations led by “weak” people in an interview with POLITICO, belittling the traditional U.S. allies for failing to control migration and end the Russia-Ukraine war, and signaling that ...
The pause of a trade pact between the EU and Mercosur exposes deep internal divisions within Europe over agriculture and trade liberalization.
Depends from where in the US. Some states have considerably higher tax rates than others. There’s little ambiguity in which way the higher tax states lean politically. I think the biggest culture shock is when people actually do the math and find out ...
BRUSSELS – As Europe enters 2026, it feels disillusioned and threatened. Across the continent, populist right parties are rising and adopting a style of bombastic populism that echoes Donald Trump’s political playbook: performative outrage, relentless ...
Leaders from across the European Union held an emergency summit in Brussels to discuss Greenland and, more broadly, their fragile relationship with America.
Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their social-welfare state system critiqued by upstart, crass ...
The European Union faced history twice in the waning days of 2025. It went one for two, maybe 0.8 for two. Critics have been gleefully predicting the European project’s demise since it launched in 1957. President Donald Trump’s administration has ...
But Europe is still reliant on American military power, especially as it tries to support Ukraine in its fight against Russia. To better understand the largest threat to the relationship between Europe and America since their alliance emerged after the Second World War,
Although experts generally agree that populist political leaders or parties display high levels of anti-elitism, definitions of populism vary. We use three measures to classify populist parties: anti-elite ratings from the 2019 Chapel Hill Expert Survey ...
For more on President Trump's relationship with Europe, we're joined by Anne Applebaum. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian, a staff writer for The Atlantic who's reported from all over the world, and she's with us now. Good morning, Anne.