Europe is ready to get back to work with the U.S., wary, frustrated and knowing it can’t trust an ally it’s relied on for decades.
With U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to seize Greenland off for now, European Union leaders at an emergency summit in Brussels Thursday said the bloc should now return to a to-do list that was already long before the American leader nearly brought the transatlantic alliance to its knees.
His latest demands scarred the relationship, they said. But, practically speaking, Europe can’t ditch the U.S. economically or otherwise. It still needs U.S. trade, financial flows, energy, protection and, most pressingly, American security guarantees for Ukraine.