EU-US SITUATION AFTER TRUMP THREATS - 2025
EU Europe's Trump strategy was hope – now hope is dead Ole Ryborg, EU correspondent for Danmarks Radio in Brussels February 15, 2025 In four weeks, the United States has gone from being Europe's best friend and ally to being an economic adversary, which has also gone behind the EU countries' backs and started talks with Putin about Ukraine. The EU's 27 member states spend billions on their foreign services, with thousands of diplomats scattered around the world, and the countries also spend enormous sums on civilian and military intelligence services. What both foreign services and intelligence services have in common is that they must collect information to help the countries' political leaders make the decisions that are best for a country's security, democracy and economic well-being. Spread over the 27 EU countries, thousan...