The rift with the United States is leading Europe to dim prospects. What the media is writing
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US President Donald Trump has again criticized Europe for its domestic and foreign policies. His comments reinforced Washington's changed position, as reflected in the new national security strategy. The break with the United States puts the European Union in an uncertain position and threatens with negative consequences. What the world's media say about Europe's prospects is in the Izvestia digest.
Axios: Trump criticizes decaying Europe, but praises Orban and Erdogan
US President Donald Trump has given a gloomy assessment of America's closest allies. Europe, according to Trump, is "decaying" due to uncontrolled immigration, adding that "many of these countries will no longer be viable." He called London Mayor Sadiq Khan a "terrible, vicious, disgusting mayor" and deplored the changes in Paris and London due to immigration.
Axios
"They want to be politically correct, and that makes them weak," Trump said of European leaders. The president formulated his criticism as personal. "My roots are in Europe," he said, "and I really don't like it when this happens. This is one of the best places in the world, and they just let people in here without checking."
At the same time, Trump supported leaders who strictly observe borders. He cited Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as an example, because "he doesn't let anyone into his country," and praised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, calling him a "tough nut to crack" and his "friend." According to him, European leaders ask him to call Erdogan when "they can't talk to him."
Politico: Trump's dissatisfaction with Ukraine and Europe is approaching its peak
Trump's desire to end the conflict in Ukraine is increasingly driven by his own impatience with the country's president, Vladimir Zelensky, and European leaders, who, in his opinion, hinder both peace and future economic cooperation between Washington and Moscow.
Politico
As Trump's irritation intensifies, the Europeans who support Zelensky are under increasing pressure. "He says we don't produce anything, and I hate to say it, but there's some truth to it," said a European official. "We're doing it now, but it didn't immediately become clear to us that we were the solution to our problem."
Trump's increasing pressure on Ukraine clearly shows that months of careful management by the president through private messages, public flattery and general deference have brought very little benefit to Europe. Liana Fix, senior fellow for European affairs at the Council on Foreign Relations, said that leaders on the other side of the Atlantic "are well aware that they cannot just stand up to Trump and boldly tell him that this is not the way to treat Europe, because of the continuing existential dependence between Europe and the United States."
Bloomberg: Europe will lose competitiveness if it does not take urgent measures
Of all the American barbs that have hit Europe over the past few days — from Elon Musk's statements about censorship in Brussels to the Trump administration's warnings about the destruction of civilization — the attacks of the head of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jamie Dimon is perhaps the most harsh. Over the weekend, he said Europe has "real problems," outlining three of them: anti-business bureaucracy, internal fragmentation, and lack of innovation.
Bloomberg
Dimon is not the first banker to complain about bureaucrats. Financiers are constantly lobbying governments to ease regulation. But he's not a cultural critic like [U.S. Vice President] Jay D. Vance. He is right about the issues he raises. It has been more than a year since [former ECB president] Mario Draghi said about the same thing to lead the continent out of a state of declining production and stagnant growth in a more hostile world where old trade ties mean nothing. Since then, crickets.
Internal disagreements, institutional inertia and "ruin your neighbor" budgeting have left Draghi's calls for €800 billion in new investments, more flexible industrial policy and integration of capital markets in limbo. The inability to resist external pressure, especially from the United States, did not contribute to success. Despite the fact that the EU could not find €800 billion for Draghi's plan, it miraculously managed to find a possible €600 billion for US investments until 2028 as part of its "agreement" with Trump on 15 percent duties.
The Guardian: Trump's national security strategy aims to redefine the foundations of European democracy
The new national security strategy of the United States, published by the Trump administration, contains a radical reassessment of Washington's policy towards Europe and relies on the rhetoric of the extreme right. The document opens with the statement that Trump "has brought our country — and the whole world — from a state close to disaster and disaster."
The Guardian
His formulations could be directly borrowed from Viktor Orban's speeches during the so-called migration crisis of 2015-2016: "We want Europe to remain European, so that it regains its civilizational self-confidence." Even more ominously, the document claims that "Europe's economic decline is being overshadowed by the real and darker prospect of the destruction of civilization."
The EU and migration policy are accused of "transforming the continent and creating conflicts, censorship of freedom of speech and suppression of political opposition, a sharp drop in the birth rate and loss of national identity and self-confidence." According to the document, if "current trends continue, the continent will become unrecognizable in 20 years or less. Thus, it is far from obvious whether some European countries will have strong enough economies and armed forces to remain reliable allies."
The Washington Post: Relations between the United States and Europe have reached a critical point
A new U.S. national security strategy critical of Europe has led to a wave of outrage across the Atlantic, angering and frustrating European officials who say the document has turned the Trump administration's vitriolic remarks about European democracies into official policy. This document exposes the depth of the split in the 80-year-old Western alliance, European officials and analysts say, and serves as proof that European countries should strive for greater military independence.
The Washington Post
"It is now clear that Vance's speech in Munich and President Trump's numerous tweets have become an official doctrine of the United States, and we must act accordingly," European Council President Antonio Costa said at an event in Paris on Monday. Costa called on Europe to understand that "the alliances formed after the Second World War have changed" and to prepare to "defend ourselves not only from our opponents, but also from allies who challenge us."
European leaders' attempts to persuade Trump — reaching an agreement on tariffs, agreeing to increase military spending, and assuming military and financial support for Ukraine — seem to have done little to change attitudes within his administration. This is stated in writing in the security document. The support of European nationalist parties within the framework of the US strategy and the promise to "cultivate resistance to the current course of Europe within European countries" also provoked resistance.
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