What Trump-Putin summit could mean for US-EU trans-atlantic alliance

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : However, divisions within Nato as well as between the US and the European Union have become more discernible with the return of Donald Trump to the American White House.
58% : Yet, the efforts towards consolidating the abilities of the EU to confront the challenges emanating from the other side of the Atlantic will remain a work in progress.
55% : After several rounds of negotiations, the EU managed to conclude a trade deal by agreeing to a 15 per cent tariff on their exports to the US, which is actually several times more than the tariff rate earlier.
52% : Seven EU members, including France and Germany, issued a joint statement and proclaimed that "the path to peace in Ukraine cannot be decided without Ukraine".
52% : The EU and Britain seem to have embarked upon a journey for achieving strategic independence from the United States, and this journey is unlikely to end even after a change of administration in the US.
42% : As President Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in Alaska on Friday for their first summit this year and negotiate a deal to end the Ukraine War, European countries appear nervous.
41% : The EU as an association signed the deal; the details of the deal, however, are not known.
41% : The decision of President Trump to hold a bilateral summit with President Putin in Alaska has rung an alarm bell in Europe.
40% : But the European allies of the US felt more firmly sandwiched when Trump dilly-dallied on backing Ukraine militarily, pushed for direct negotiations with Russian President Putin and refused to consult them on an issue that has perceptibly posed the most serious security challenge to the continent since the end of the Second World War.
39% : The EU will also face tremendous difficulties from within the association.
38% : During his first presidency, Trump was distrustful of Nato, but his successor, Joe Biden, had restored the trans-Atlantic trust amidst the Ukraine War.
37% : While the EU energy imports from Russia were difficult amidst the Ukraine war and implementation of anti-Russian sanctions by the combined West, Trump's demands for more defence expenditure added to the economic agonies of the EU.
30% : While President Trump in his second administration successfully bulldozed Nato members to agree to his proposal for enhancement of their defence expenditure to make it five per cent of their respective GDP, he has not been able to bully the EU member countries to endorse his policy towards Russia and its war against Ukraine.
24% : President Trump, from the days of presidential election campaigns for the second term, has repeatedly opposed his predecessor Joe Biden's Ukraine policy.
23% : President Trump is not willing to carry the leaders of America's trans-Atlantic allies along with him while negotiating with President Putin.
23% : President Trump considers the EU a fierce competitor, perhaps an economic rival, and recently launched a tariff war against them, as against numerous countries around the world.

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