Can Europe Break Up With the US?

欧洲能与美国分手吗?

Big Take

2026-01-27

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From his ambitions to acquire Greenland to his retracted (for now) threats of tariffs on European countries that oppose him, President Donald Trump continues to alienate the EU’s member states. But they’re aligned on one thing: The continent needs to be ready to stand on its own, and fast. On today’s Big Take podcast, host David Gura and Bloomberg Brussels bureau chief Suzanne Lynch recap the outcomes of an emergency summit of EU leaders last Thursday, the toolkit at their disposal to push back and the routes ahead for Europe in a shifting world order. Read more: Shellshocked EU Rethinks US Relationship After Trump Threat Further listening: Trump Takes Europe to the Brink on Greenland Hosted by David Gura; Produced by David Fox; Reported by Suzanne Lynch; Edited by Aaron Edwards. Fact-checking by Eleanor Harrison-Dengate; Engineering by Alex Sugiura. Senior Producer: Naomi Shavin; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver. Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Certain places in Europe are not even recognizable, frankly, anymore.

  • They're not recognizable.

  • In his second term,

  • President Donald Trump has been upending global trade and breaking geopolitical norms faster and more dramatically than in his first.

  • And a lot of that is playing out with his relationship to Europe.

  • I love Europe and I want to see Europe go good.

  • But it's not heading in the right direction.

  • After a striking speech from the president in Davos last week,

  • where he rashed it up the pressure on countries who opposed his goal of acquiring Greenland,

  • European leaders gathered at an emergency meeting to consider how to respond.

  • The mood was grim.

  • The word shell-shocked is not too much of an exaggeration.

  • Suzanne Lynch is Bloomberg's Brussels bureau chief.

  • I think the feeling in Europe after Donald Trump reiterated his threat to annex Greenland and to put extra tariffs on a number of European countries over their opposition to Trump's plans on Greenland really took European leaders by surprise.

  • Just a few months ago, the US and the European Union agreed to a new trade deal.

  • But European leaders suspended the approval of that deal in response to Trump's tariff threats over Greenland.

  • Hours later, Trump walked them back.

  • Now,

  • many leaders in Europe feel like the time has come to reconsider the continent's relationship with the U.S.