What will change (or not) between Europe and the United States?

Joe Biden, February 6, 2015, then Vice-President of the United States, in conference at the European Council in Brussels.

AP Photo / Virginia Mayo

By: Daniel Desesquelle

2 min

The vast majority of Europeans woke up on Wednesday morning (November 4, 2020) groggy.

Bolstered by the polls and their willingness to turn the Trump page, they hoped for the blue wave from the Democrats and were hardly prepared for a trench war of challenges and appeals that is not about to end.

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If Donald Trump has largely contributed to deteriorating the relationship between the European Union and the United States, it had deteriorated long before him ... And the new president of the United States will not change much, for Europeans, the opportunity to confirm their strategic ambition.

And the new president of the United States will not change much.

But, for Europeans, it will be an opportunity to confirm their strategic ambition.


With:


Alexandra de Hoop Sheffer

, political scientist and director of

the Paris Office of the German Marshal Fund of the United States

.


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Jeff Hawkins

, former American diplomat and associate researcher at

IRIS

(Institute for International and Strategic Relations).


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Christian Lequesne

, Professor of Political Science at

Sciences-po Paris

.


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Justin Vaïsse

, historian specializing in the United States and director general of

the Paris Peace Forum

.


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More info: here.


With

Sasha Mitchell

of

Courrier International.

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