Eoin Drea is senior researcher in the Belgium-based Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.
For Europeans, the second Trump presidency didn’t take long to live down to our worst fears. Vice President JD Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference in Febru signaled an American approach increasingly hostile to Europe’s core economic and cultural values. This was followed by President Donald Trump’s assertion that the European Union was actually formed to “screw” the U.S.
