For over a year, Europe has become the world\u2019s geopolitical punching bag, taking economic roundhouses from the east and geopolitical uppercuts from the west without ever swinging back.<\/p>\n
From US President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs and covetous glances at Greenland<\/a> to Beijing\u2019s rare earth embargoes<\/a> and lightning blockade of semiconductor shipments, Europe\u2019s first response has been to freeze, not fight.<\/p>\n But now, it may be ready to counterpunch. After a fresh Trump tariff threat emerged last week, a flurry of reports, data and blueprints in Europe revealed a range of regulatory blows the EU could land \u2013 if it is finally ready to hit back.<\/p>\n \u201cWe see very strongly that the rhetoric is shifting in Europe,\u201d said Jonathan Barth, co-author of a study of Europe\u2019s choke points by Geostrategic Europe Taskforce.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s much clearer about the necessity for deterrence.\u201d<\/p>\n One option, researchers in Germany said, was for Europe to hold Trump\u2019s \u201cenormous\u201d nuclear energy plans to ransom by weaponising its supply of low-enriched uranium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For over a year, Europe has become the world\u2019s geopolitical punching bag, taking economic roundhouses from the east…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[166324,3801,2574,11330,943,1395,32,2000,299,5187,1699,1824,366,2122,166325,26401,49],"class_list":["post-797051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-asml","tag-beijing","tag-berlin","tag-brussels","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-germany","tag-greenland","tag-japan","tag-nexperia","tag-siemens-energy","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797051","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=797051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}