Trump, Putin, Xi... Strongmen are at the gate but Europe's leaders are too busy infighting to notice | Simon Tisdall

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Responding to Draghi, EU leaders issued a grand-sounding "competitiveness declaration" at their Budapest summit this month.
47% : He is forging an alliance of pro-Ukraine countries within Nato, including France, Britain and the Baltic states, regardless of Trump.
45% : Amid threat to its 'reason for being' EU must stop squabbling and take a stand, but only the east of the bloc is stepping up Fiddling while Rome burns fairly describes the antics of party leaders in the European parliament last week.
44% : Trump says he will slap duties of between 10% and 20% on all imports, which could, for example, decimate Europe's car industry.
41% : His destructive, regressive policies on protectionist tariffs, Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Iran, Nato's future and the climate crisis run directly contrary to EU interests.
33% : It's entirely possible that Trump will pull the plug on US military aid, conspire with Putin and try to impose a land-for-peace deal on Kyiv.
18% : The US people have given a carte blanche to Trump as we fuck around."

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