Etiket arşivi: G-7

The West in a Leadership Crisis

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March 30, 2026

Last Saturday, the war in Iran entered its second month. During the past four weeks, the only European leader to object to the attacks on Iran was Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. He issued a clear and firm refusal on March 6, saying, “No to war,” and denying the US permission to use joint Spanish-American military bases against Iran. In the following days, he warned that the Iran war represents a “far worse” scenario than the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He said Israel “seeks to inflict the same level of damage and destruction” on Lebanon as on the Gaza Strip.

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Iran War, A New Strain on Transatlantic Relations

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March 23, 2026

With Trump’s second term in the White House, transatlantic relations entered challenging times. First came his largely understandable criticism of the European contribution to common defense, to which Europeans responded by committing to raising defense spending from 2% to 5% of their GDP. Second, came his tariff wars. On July 28, 2025, the White House announced a trade deal with the EU, reached during a meeting between Commission President von der Leyen and Trump, “fundamentally rebalancing the economic relationship between the world’s two largest economies”. The deal drew some criticism from within the EU. Third, Washington ignored the European countries’ views on the war in Ukraine. Trump did not allow them a seat at the negotiating table but lectured them in the Oval Office following his Alaska Summit with Putin. His remarks on the EU remained mostly condescending.

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