From Brussels to Warsaw, Troubled Europe Reckons with Trump -- and Itself

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : "I believe Trump can be better.
63% : The people that I spoke to in positions of power have experience of Trump from his first term.
61% : To get a better sense of what kind of Europe will greet Trump next year, I took a post-election trip through three of its most important capitals.
60% : As much as the core of Europe looks frail, Poland is one of several eastern-flank states that Trump likes and they like back.
59% : He seems to have convinced Trump, the senior NATO official said, of NATO's "usefulness" to America.
51% : The ultimate question for a Europe adrift is: Does it have leaders to forge a new kind of transatlantic relationship with Trump and reestablish itself on the world stage?
50% : German elections won't take place before Trump takes office and a new government will follow weeks, possibly months, after.
44% : Over at NATO, the former Dutch Prime Minister and new alliance chief Mark Rutte has brought fresh energy to that building and has a preexisting and allegedly decent relationship with Trump.
42% : Ursula von der Leyen, the German who heads the European Commission, doesn't do preachiness as past European leaders have with American presidents, including Trump.
41% : That's harder to do with Trump there.
38% : On the war in Ukraine, Trump has, even before taking office, created a new consensus across Europe and in Kyiv that they must seriously look for a way to end it in early 2025.
32% : But there's less existential dread at NATO than I remember in 2017, when Trump made those threats.
26% : Trump has in the past threatened to quit the alliance or kill it by refusing to stand by the Article 5 pledge to defend any ally against attack -- the glue, mental as much as military, that holds the place together.

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