Europe views US with ‘much less horror’ after Trump’s midterms defeat

During the campaign for the midterm elections in the United States, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans spoke much about issues related to Europe. US President Donald Trump’s handling of the Ukraine war, his approach to Greenland and his aggressive posture towards the European Union were not on the agenda.

Yet while the Democratic Party’s victory last week could produce a Congress that is friendlier towards Europe, experts do not expect major shifts in US foreign policy in some areas. “Europeans are looking much less in horror towards the US than they have in the past two years, but they should not exaggerate the significance in terms of transatlantic relations,” said Erik Jones, director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute.