{"id":55058,"date":"2025-04-27T15:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/55058\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:20:12","slug":"donald-trumps-antics-mean-new-boldness-is-needed-in-uk-eu-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/55058\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s antics mean new boldness is needed in UK-EU links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">THE PACE of geopolitical change seems more hectic by the week. For Britain, one effect ought to be a new emphasis on stronger links with the European Union. A planned UK-EU summit in London on May 19th is an important chance to start improving post-Brexit relations. Vladimir Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine and, especially, Donald Trump\u2019s recent antics on tariffs and his startling revisionism on Russia have injected new urgency into Europe\u2019s need to bolster its own security. That is likely eventually to bring Britain and the EU closer together\u2014but there are some obstacles along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE PACE of geopolitical change seems more hectic by the week. For Britain, one effect ought to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[748,2000,299,5187,6218,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-55058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-geopolitics","13":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114410607326413090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}