Just like Latin America, decades, fascinated the United States that played on both continents, the main strategic, economic, political and cultural role. The point of rotation taken by the Trump administration may announce the end of this era.
If you were born between the 1970s or the 1980s, there is a good chance that American music formed your training sound recording in loops on the local radio and that you remember many emblematic replicas of Hollywood classics. For better or up, American culture and today remains ubiquitous, listing everyday life, dictating wardrobes and dreams of billions of people … However, this omnipresence often feeds indignation and distrust.
Then the return of Donald Trump, experiences in Europe, even more than yesterday, an ambiguous mixture of admiration and distrust in Washington. This ambivalence, Latin America, where we danced on the sound of a rock from the continent’s saver, living in the oppressive shadow of dictatorship benefits from sometimes explicit support to Washington – she knew that she unitively knew it for decades. Europeans are also felt and re-revenge cultures and policies of the United States, seduced by their dynamics and their spirit of innovation, which are afraid of their geopolitical ambitions and are often stunned by their internal discussions.
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These paradoxical feelings culminate in the current pie period, where the old continent seems to be prepared for good distance with “Uncle Sam”
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Taxation of the Trump administration of customs rights on European products and threats of new trading economies, encouraging European nations to review their united states market and exploring other partnerships.
At the same time, NATO unity, an earlier cornerstone of transatlanic relations, in the case of attacks on one of the members of the Alliance, cannot respect the obligations of Article 5, which currently pushes Europe in the implementation of the Council of the Defense.
Digital sovereignty also became the subject of controversy, with marked differences between strict European data protection laws, more easily access in the United States, creating tensions on taxation and digital regulations. Consequently, Europe seeks to reduce its dependence on American technological giants, promoting local innovation and confirming greater technological independence.
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The uncertainty that the Government in the relations between the United States and the EU is manifested in recent analyzes. The report of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) notes that “Trump’s Washington has a feeling that Europe uses Europe to ignore his defense responsibilities, at the same time targeting American companies with binding regulations.”
The experience of Latin America is a timely warning for Europe, clearly illustrates the risks of blind acceptance of American influence, especially when this acceptance does not take into account geopolitical costs that inevitably accompany cultural attractions. This feeling is involved in the recent analysis of the European Parliament, indicating that in the past 65 years, while official transatlantic interactions continued to intensify and deepen, the United States has only recognized the EU’s significant reluctance.
The experience of Latin America in terms of economic dependence on Washington, strategic interventions in the United States and conflicts of interest between continental officials and American companies provides key lights, pointing out how desirable is preferred alignment. The existing relations of Europe with the United States in this require this type of prudent and thoughtful approach, recognizing attracting these relationships while remaining aware of the inherent geopolitical risks.
This testifies to a recent Spanish Bank report that notes that geopolitical and commercial tensions with the United States represent the main risk factor for the Latin American economy.
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The current period, marked by the growing separation between the EU and the United States, is critical milestones. Two outputs showed: the continent was finally able to reach a significant unit by adopting real strategic autonomy and reinforced internal cooperation; Or it could, on the contrary, returned to its usual fragmentation and its political ignorance.
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History has been brutally reminiscent of this: decades of struggle for the unique European currency and a persistent internal division in the euro zone, recent disagreements on COVVI-19 pandemic policies, the path of European integration has never been easy or secured.
Serious vulnerabilities affect the vital key sectors for the future of Europe – without assured United States support -, such as advanced technologies, semiconductors, artificial intelligence and critical infrastructure. The constant dependence of Europe in relation to American supply chains and, more and more, Chinese, risk holder is not only economic, but also strategically.
Recent disorders of semiconductors and delays in Europe in terms of innovation illustrate the size of the task consisting of achieving technological sovereignty. Real independence in these areas requires unprecedented political will, significant economic investments, deep structural transformation, and above all, cultural and institutional changes.
The delivery of globalization signals deep geopolitical turmoil that Europe cannot afford to underestimate. I underlined in a way in which these strategic reconfigurations distracted economic integration and technological streams and how global political instability and cultural divisions must be managed with caution, under the name and cultural political instability and cultural divisions and cultural political instability.
It goes or breaks!
In the heart of European integration, the project is an existential choice, delayed for too long. Europe must finally decide what it is essentially: economic partnership has mainly focused on trade, markets and economic growth; Or a true political and moral yield based on common values, human rights, universalism and a common civilization vision.
The crisis caused by a trump 2.0 administration has revealed variety in a white way and, often differences in design that Europe should be. Different reactions of European leaders and companies – enthusiastic membership from certain European leaders to nationalist policies, opposing the skepticism and concern others – they emphasize these basic divisions.
This tension between reinforced integration and national sovereignty is a repetitive topic of European policy, Brekit is the most spectacular manifestation to date.
The future of Europe is based on understanding and management of simultaneous increase in geopolitical fragmentation, progression of populism, technological dependencies and erosion of traditional alliances. Faced with these challenges, the continent must take advantage of this key opportunity to adopt real solidarity, under the penalty loss of relevance. They will exceed the purely economic or opportunistic logic for the construction of the European Union based on common political, moral, moral and civilization values. This implies more structured than economic solidarity, where Member States deliberately decide to unite in the face of the crisis, either geopolitical, technological, social or democratic. It goes or breaks!
Max Barahona does not advise, not receives actions, does not receive funds from an organization that could benefit from this Article and has not declared any other affiliation from its research organization.
