By Shimon Stein
Unlike the reaction of the Israeli government, which welcomed Trump's victory, the response of the European Union (EU) countries ranged from panic to uncertainty to some joy.
The panic was due to the fact that Trump's victory finds the EU unprepared to face the implications of the incoming administration's policies.
This lack of preparedness is also driven by the hope that Trump’s first term had been an “anomaly” or a “deviation,” which the Biden administration had “corrected” by bringing the United States back to a familiar path of multilateralism, the importance of alliances, support for maintaining the liberal order, values, and more.
Instead of heeding the first wake-up call during Trump's first term, EU countries focused on climate action over growth and competitiveness.
Instead of increasing investment in security more than they have done since the war in Ukraine began, they invested in welfare policies.
In other words, EU countries have not done enough to reduce their dependence on the US.
Is the discourse of “European sovereignty”, a mantra widely repeated by President Macron, beginning to take shape?
EU countries will have to hope that Trump's campaign positions on security, trade, the war in Ukraine and more do not fully materialize.
Regardless of the uncertainty that will surround the EU for some time, it (both at the union and member state level) must move from declarations of intent to concrete actions to reduce dependence on the US.
It is worth noting that Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his allies could put obstacles in the way of efforts to design policies that address the needs and challenges that the Trump administration will present.
It was Orbán who opened a bottle of champagne to celebrate Trump's victory.
There is no doubt that a Trump victory will energize the anti-democratic populist right.
In short, Trump's election finds the EU at a critical moment.
The engine of the union – namely Germany and France – is stalling, economic growth is flagging, the issue of illegal immigration remains unresolved in a way that addresses public concerns, and political fragmentation is eroding the democratic fabric.
All of this undermines public confidence in elected democratic institutions and their representatives.
Will this second wake-up call bring about the necessary paradigm shift, or will a Trumpist wave sweep across Europe as well?
Source: INSS – The Institute for National Security Studies
An old joke that is repeated
Germany and France will step forward, Italy will try and Spain will not know what they are talking about
Trump's victory came from God. Europe supports Ukraine with weapons because of fear of Russia and because Israel cannot defend itself from terrorists and Iran. Europe did not want Trump to win. We know that. May God protect Israel.
The extensive military victory of the Israelites in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, etc., shows that the enemies' alternatives tend to be increasingly directed towards the existential crisis of their way of life, which urges them to defend themselves, whose defense is only a search for evil in war.
Such enemies are adversaries in peace, but they are voracious and heartless in adversity. Their periphery is permeated by their hatred of freedom, the lack of a healthy freedom.
The lack of simple justice, reflected in human qualities and ordered and well-organized cultural potential, makes the Oriental a being with little 'divine' bearing, little connection to decent survival.
And it is also a being increasingly dependent on the UN, which has been divided into two: one of free and recognized activity, and another, of scathing anti-Semitic activity, that is, the meeting of unfortunate 'sayayines', cooks of iniquitous legacies and buffoonery, based on false, biased and partial models.
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