The Obama administration needs to declare a “pivot to Europe” policy, and quickly.
Not that the famous pivot to Asia has amounted to much: It drifts somewhere in the Pacific like a dead fish. But relations between the U.S. and its European allies are going from not brilliant to sour to urgently in need of attention. The unwanted consequences are near, first of all on the trade side.
he Obama administration needs to declare a “pivot to Europe” policy, and quickly.
Not that the famous pivot to Asia has amounted to much: It drifts somewhere in the Pacific like a dead fish. But relations between the U.S. and its European allies are going from not brilliant to sour to urgently in need of attention. The unwanted consequences are near, first of all on the trade side.
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