The review is clear about how Europe can regain its “self-confidence”.<\/p>\n
It says: “The growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism. Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory. We will need a strong Europe to help us successfully compete.”<\/p>\n
And one of its policies for doing this is by “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations”.<\/p>\n
What is meant precisely by “cultivating resistance” raises many questions.<\/p>\n
In Europe, some have already concluded that the USA may no longer be a reliable ally, at a time when Russia poses a growing threat. After Vice-President Vance’s speech in Munich, Germany’s Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said Europe would need to “achieve independence” from America with a reshaped Nato.<\/p>\n
But this takes time.<\/p>\n
“It’s not achievable in the short term,” says Sir Lawrence. “The Europeans have become very dependent upon the United States, and this was a matter of choice: it was cheaper and simpler.<\/p>\n
“Though in practice it would be desirable to be able to act without the Americans\u2026 in practice it’s going to take years to disentangle ourselves. And it’ll be extremely expensive.<\/p>\n
“So Europe has a difficulty: it can’t rely on the Americans, but it can’t operate easily without them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The review is clear about how Europe can regain its “self-confidence”. It says: “The growing influence of patriotic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-684752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115865876465728498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684752","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=684752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}