There is a way to turn Trump's chaos into an opportunity. Here is what European leaders must do | Paul Taylor

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The EU remains the biggest single market in the world, with about 448 million consumers and an attractive business location for companies seeking political stability, the rule of law and a skilled workforce.
56% : Historically, European integration tends to accelerate during crises and slacken when the pressure is off.
56% : Add to that a third, internal challenge from nationalist populism that could tear the union apart if the current generation of leaders doesn't give Europe a fundamental new impulse.
55% : The centre-right Merz, who will lead a centrist coalition between his Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, has declared his ambition to revive German leadership in the EU, in partnership with French president Emmanuel Macron and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk.
51% : The advent of an illiberal, authoritarian nationalist regime in our closest ally may yet be a blessing in disguise if it helps European leaders tear down longstanding self-imposed obstacles to integration.
51% : If pro-Putin populists in Hungary and Slovakia block the use of EU institutions to achieve these objectives, then governments should create coalitions of willing states to take the necessary decisions, supported by the European Commission wherever possible.
48% : The jury is still out on prospects of a negotiated settlement, but the EU must work in the medium term to make its economy less reliant on exports to the US and China.
45% : Apart from the jolt from Trump's hostile actions, there's another reason to believe the EU may finally achieve some of the critical advances that have proved elusive in the last decade: leadership.
44% : He also wants to draw the UK into a closer security and defence embrace with the EU and work with Keir Starmer, both to build a stronger rampart against Putin's aggression and in the hope of a longer-term economic rapprochement to overcome the damage of Brexit.
39% : The US president has said that the EU was created to "screw the United States" and slapped punitive tariffs on European goods.
32% : The EU now faces twin existential challenges from a ruthless, revisionist Putin and a vandalistic, unpredictable Trump.
26% : On trade, the EU has rightly held back from kneejerk retaliation for each haphazard announcement from the White House while making clear its willingness to use all its powers, including potentially against US tech giants, if Trump does not accept an equitable solution.
19% : The EU, the world's biggest single market, can reposition itself and become less reliant on exporting goods to the US and China Europeans have had plenty to mope about since Donald Trump entered the White House not quite three months ago.

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