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Only 13 percent believe Trump “respects democratic principles,” while 43 percent say the U.S. president “has authoritarian tendencies” and 39 percent even think Trump “acts like a dictator.”

It’s not just Trump who is viewed…

For years European officials have talked a big game on defence. The European Union has made numerous proposals to boost the continent’s puny production of arms. Three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, what do Europe’s…

Ultimately though, tough wording threatening additional sanctions on Russian energy and trade goods might mean little, given actually implementing it at an EU level still does require unanimity — and Hungary has time and time again blocked…

Summary

• Faced with an aggressive new Trump administration, Europeans must understand the assets they can use as deterrents
• Across trade, technology, infrastructure, finance and people-to-people relations,…