Navigating the Atlantic

Since January 2025, Transatlantic Relations have entered a period of unprecedented turbulence. Washington's provocative statements on Greenland, the partial suspension of aid to Ukraine, growing doubts over NATO commitments: for many Europeans, something fundamental has broken down. But has it really? And perhaps more importantly, how is this moment being experienced in Warsaw, Tallinn, or Riga? T...

One year and a half after Donald Trump's return to the White House, almost every assumption underpinning the transatlantic relationship has been stress tested. Some have held, many have not. Welcome to Navigating the Atlantic, this second season’s first episode. Today we are asking the question that frames this entire season. Is the Atlantic alliance still an alliance in any meaningful sense or is...

Aujourd'hui, Michael Koplovsky, professeur invité au Collège d'Europe et titulaire du Master en affaires transatlantiques, nous parle des relations commerciales entre l'Union européenne et les États-Unis.

For this second episode we talk about the overall state of Transatlantic relations, its impact on the European project and the need for the European Union to establish new bridges with other countries, especially in the global south. And for that we have a special guest, Ilke Toygür , director of the Global Policy Center and professor of European politics at IE University.

On January 20th, Donald Trump became the 47th President of the United States. Since that day, Donald Trump has been pressuring Europeans to allocate a larger share of their budget to defense, while simultaneously weakening the security guarantees that the United States provides to Europe through NATO. Forced to take responsibility for themselves, Europeans are compelled to acknowledge how much the...