2025

Buchanan Ponczek, Cordelia; Helwig, Niklas

In this edition of the European Council Experts’ Debrief, our experts focus on the omnipresent theme of global politics in 2025: the impacts of the second Trump administration no the United States’ global partnerships. In particular, as regards transatlantic relations between the US and Europe, we asked fourteen experts from across TEPSA’s pan-European network to respond to the following question, formulated by TEPSA Secretary-General Jim Cloos and Executive Director Mariam Khotenashvili: “How significant are the changes in American politics for the European Union (EU)? Have Europeans truly woken up to the implications – geopolitical, security, political, and economic? And how should the EU position itself in light of these profound shifts?”