European leaders converge on Budapest on Thursday with the hope of displaying a – relatively – united front in the face of Donald Trump's return to the White House, aware that their disagreements will be so many breaches in which the Republican billionaire will not fail to find himself. engulf.
The day after a spectacular political comeback that stunned America and the world, nearly fifty heads of state and government are expected in the Hungarian capital for a summit of the European Political Community (EPC) , before a smaller conclave with just the 27 EU members on Friday.
Become support for Ukraine, threat of military disengagement, return of customs duties, environmental issues: the upcoming arrival in Washington of the unpredictable businessman, four years after the end of his first mandate, place the EU and the countries close to it face dizzying challenges.
Despite repeated calls in recent months for greater “strategic autonomy” European Union, the bloc seems caught off guard in the face of a second mandate that it hoped would be avoidable.
