NATO summit: after Trump, what relationship between the EU and the United States?

ANALYSIS

Act 2 of Joe Biden's tour of Europe.

After the G7 in the United Kingdom, Monday at the NATO summit in Belgium, which will mark "the reunion" between America and its allies, mistreated during the presidency of Donald Trump.

For Europeans, one of the challenges will be to position themselves against the Americans: to line up behind them, as before the Trump era, or to assert their autonomy a little more.

Emmanuel Macron wants the EU to speak on an equal footing with the United States.

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"I think that NATO today is in a situation which requires a very great strategic clarification. NATO was built to face the Warsaw Pact. It is structured ideologically in this face to face. 'is more. We need to say who our enemy is and where, "said the French president on Sunday at a press conference at the end of the G7.

The head of state has also launched a few pikes in recent days, especially on the fact that the United States would like to see China identified as the new common enemy.

"China is not in the Atlantic geography, or else my map has a problem," he remarked at a press conference. 

Contrast between Trump and Biden

Not sure, however, that these attempts at independence are too much to the liking of other Europeans.

Relieved, they first want to savor the American comeback and erase the Trump trauma.

In 2018, at the previous summit in Brussels, the billionaire caused a scandal, spelling out his financial demands and attacking Germany on its energy dependence on Moscow.

The contrast with Joe Biden is striking: he reaffirmed on Sunday that the defense of an attacked ally remained a "sacred obligation" for the United States. 

On Monday, leaders will lay the groundwork for the alliance's future strategic concept.

Who are his new enemies?

Cyber, terrorism, China, Russia?

This summit will be that of reunion, but there will be a bottom too.