{"id":715776,"date":"2026-01-23T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/715776\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:30:21","slug":"thank-you-to-the-haters-for-spurring-europe-forward-eus-top-banker-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/715776\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you to the haters for spurring Europe forward, EU\u2019s top banker says\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut if\u00a0anything\u00a0it has been good, and we should say thank you to the bashers, because I think it has given us a complete realization of the fact that we have to be more focused,\u201d\u00a0she added,\u00a0especially\u00a0on \u201cinnovation\u201d and \u201cproductivity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the last few days\u00a0at the Davos summit, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-leaders-donald-trump-greenland-summit-davos-relief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Europe was not heading in \u201cthe right direction, <\/a>U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called Denmark \u201cirrelevant,\u201d and\u00a0Commerce Secretary\u00a0Howard\u00a0Lutnick\u00a0berated Europe during a VIP dinner\u00a0with\u00a0European\u00a0officials and\u00a0business leaders \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/world-economic-forum-davos-global-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly prompting Lagarde<\/a>, who was in attendance,\u00a0to walk out of the event in protest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Lagarde\u00a0also\u00a0struck an optimistic\u00a0note\u00a0Friday,\u00a0detailing\u00a0her \u201cvery, very strong belief\u201d that\u00a0Europeans and Americans share similar values and\u00a0ultimately need\u00a0to\u00a0come\u00a0together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and this might be my emotional side, sorry about that, we women tend to be emotional\u00a0\u2014\u00a0I think we have to think of the people,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I have huge trust and affection for the American people, and I know that at the end of the day, the deeply rooted values will prevail.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>European leaders scrambled this week to figure out how to respond to an increasingly hostile U.S. administration. That entailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-leaders-agree-independent-europe-summit-emmanuel-macron-friedrich-merz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">holding a summit Thursday evening<\/a> in which they discussed countermeasures if Trump \u2014 who dropped his threat to impose\u00a0punishing\u00a0tariffs on European countries\u00a0that opposed his bid to annex Greenland \u2014\u00a0actually\u00a0pulls the trigger\u00a0in the future.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBut if\u00a0anything\u00a0it has been good, and we should say thank you to the bashers, because I think it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[472,21882,365,32,2000,299,5187,366,1302,479,6717,1771,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-715776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-christine-lagarde","9":"tag-davos","10":"tag-denmark","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-greenland","16":"tag-innovation","17":"tag-tariffs","18":"tag-transatlantic-relations","19":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","20":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115945604809229965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715776","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=715776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}