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DOn January 20, US President Donald Trump promulgated around sixty decrees (Executive Orders) which cover an extended range of subjects – from the mass expulsion of clandestine immigrants to the overhaul of family policy and the redefinition of energy policy. Their common line is that they aim to open a new era for America and for the world. The radicalism of their ambition has been unprecedented for decades. Even Ronald Reagan, elected in 1980, was more measured.

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Threats to Greenland and the desire to regain possession of the Panama Canal, twenty-five years after the retrocession of the latter, bear witness to the fact that Donald Trump feels linked by any international standard and that no agreement, even Formally ratified, in his eyes does not obstruct the affirmation of American power. For him, “America First” must be understood in the strict sense.

Faced with this spectacular unleashing, Europe is paralyzed. As rabbits dazzled by the headlights of a car, the heads of state and government agitated in all directions, incapable that they were to agree on a coordinated response. Even the threat of a takeover of Greenland – yet formally part of the European Union – has not, so far, aroused common response.

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This week, the commission has published a project “Competitiveness compass” Presented as a response to Donald Trump's initiatives. If the will must be welcomed and if certain projects-Union of savings and investment, common status for innovative start-ups, regulatory simplification-go in the right direction, it is excessive to see a “answer to Trump ”.

Predation behavior

In addition to it is, at this stage, only guidelines, and not a common decision, the proposals made in this text are mostly the implementation of recommendations from the Enrico Letta reports (April 2024) and Mario Draghi (September 2024). Donald Trump's election and his first decisions probably played an accelerator role. But most of the proposals would have been identical if Kamala Harris occupied the oval office.

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