Europe, too, is worth fighting for Order reprints | today’s paper | subscribe The trump administration has slammed the eu’s political and social policies, which it claims are undermining europe’s identity The stark language of the new u.s Security strategy helps europeans to recognize new realities and to devise their own response. Will europe fight for ukraine
Four of the five places with the least enthusiastic fighters globally were in europe, including spain, germany and notably italy, where just 14% of respondents said they were up for taking on a. A “reparations loan” worth up to €210bn, currently under discussion, would go a long way towards financing ukraine’s defence and europe’s collective security in the coming years. Europe is turning frozen russian reserves into fictitious collateral, cutting itself off from cheap energy, and betting its future on a war economy tied to washington
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