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What are Europe’s largest weak spots for a Trump presidency?
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What are Europe’s largest weak spots for a Trump presidency?

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By Tycoon Herald 8 Min Read Published November 7, 2024
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Good morning from Budapest, the place European leaders collect right this moment to work out how they will navigate a second Donald Trump presidency.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterday sacked his finance minister Christian Lindner and introduced a no-confidence vote for January, heralding an early finish to his unloved governing coalition, and leaving a void on the coronary heart of Europe at this important time.

We lay out the most important challenges the EU will face underneath Trump right here.

Local weather coverage

It’s “virtually certain” that this yr would be the warmest ever on report, scientists say. However Trump’s victory could effectively go away the EU because the final man standing for local weather motion

Trump has stated he’ll once more pull the US out of the Paris local weather settlement to restrict world warming to 1.5C. He’s additionally eager to take advantage of fossil fuels: his marketing campaign slogan was “drill, baby, drill”.

The EU, in contrast, has among the many world’s most bold local weather objectives and is the most important local weather finance donor. However its economic system can be affected by complicated paperwork and excessive vitality costs.

EU officers yesterday placed on a courageous face. Local weather motion ought to nonetheless be seen as “a matter of both security and of opportunity for both Europe and the United States”, stated one.

However many fear that far-right governments within the EU could also be emboldened by a Trump presidency to combat more durable in opposition to the bloc’s local weather objectives, particularly if US companies aren’t hampered by equal restrictions.

Former European surroundings commissioner Janez Potočnik stated it was a “different context” to Trump’s election in 2016 — within the wake of utmost climate occasions within the EU and US this yr. “Let’s hope that this will be seen and recognised.”

Commerce

Europe is acutely weak to Trump’s financial coverage plans, because the US accounted for a fifth of the bloc’s complete exports final yr, in accordance with Eurostat.

Trump desires to shut the €158bn commerce deficit the US has with the EU, and has talked of a blanket 20 per cent tariffs on imports from the bloc. Germany, Italy and Eire are the EU nations with the best export stage to the US, and can be most affected.

Frantic talks will quickly start between EU officers and Trump’s transition workforce about how tariffs will be prevented, with a probable mixture of carrot and stick. Incoming EU commerce commissioner Maroš Šefčovič stated this week he would supply “co-operation” with the election winner, however “stand up for our interests”.

However regardless of the European Fee’s assurances that it’s ready, the ranks of senior officers coping with the US have been thinned. A number of officers within the commerce and agriculture departments have retired and never been changed over the previous yr. Key officers within the commerce directorate coping with the US and Latin America are in an appearing capability, overlaying two jobs.

Warfare in Ukraine

Ukraine is more likely to be Trump’s most outstanding — and most fast — geopolitical sufferer.

Trump has campaigned on a promise to finish the struggle in Ukraine earlier than his inauguration on January 20, even when which means forcing Kyiv to swallow phrases — comparable to relinquishing of territory to Russia — that it has stated it can’t settle for.

As president, Trump holds a lot of Ukraine’s destiny in his palms straight. Kyiv depends closely on US navy, monetary and diplomatic help, a lot of which the White Home can halt or throttle off. He may use govt orders to raise sanctions on Russia, ought to he select.

Some nonetheless hope that was only a marketing campaign slogan to raised bash the Joe Biden administration, however the indicators recommend even Kyiv is leaning into the brand new actuality: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy yesterday hailed Trump’s skill to carry “a just peace” to his nation.

EU defence

Ought to Trump comply with via on his menace to droop help to Ukraine, the burden would fall on Europe. Whereas European officers admit that they merely can’t change US navy shipments attributable to America’s far bigger stockpiles, discovering extra cash is feasible, if politically difficult.

However Europe could have a far bigger downside to cope with concurrently: it’s personal safety and defence. Trump has threatened to let Russia do “whatever the hell they want” to European Nato allies who he thinks don’t pay sufficient for their very own defence. That comes on high of his repeated musings about withdrawing US troops and weapons out of Europe.

The price of mitigating that’s astronomical. A pan-European air defence defend, for instance, would price €500bn, the EU’s incoming defence commissioner Andrius Kubilius stated yesterday. That’s roughly 50 per cent greater than EU nations collectively spend on defence every year, he added.

“We will need to take more and more responsibility on our shoulders. We need to spend more . . . because of Putin,” Kubilius stated.

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What are Europe’s largest weak spots for a Trump presidency?

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  1. European Political Neighborhood assembly in Budapest.

  2. Italian President Sergio Mattarella visits his counterpart Xi Jinping in China.

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  • Trump lure: Central banks world wide danger being blindsided by geopolitical tensions, commerce wars and political meddling, writes Chris Giles.

  • Grocery store on the market: French retailer Carrefour is eyeing a disposal of non-core operations comparable to in Italy or Poland, to spice up its valuation.

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