Has Trump reshuffled the cards for Europe? Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 79 November 2016
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2016

“I think NATO may be obsolete”. When Donald Trump, the next President of the United States, spoke these words during the campaign, he most likely had only a vague idea of how he would act upon them. But one thing is certain: if he made the statement, it is because he knew it to be a vote-winner. And win he did. Has his election reshuffled the cards for European diplomacy and defence?