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“Trust in Trump’s America is gone.” The coronavirus crisis has caused a dramatic deterioration in the European public perception of the US and left many believing the EU had become “irrelevant”, new polling finds. The new survey by the European Council for Foreign Relations (ECFR) says the pandemic has traumatized Europeans and left them “feeling alone and vulnerable”. The survey studied the views of Europeans towards the EU and notably its response to the coronavirus crisis and the results did not make for positive reading. “There is a powerful sense among citizens of almost all surveyed member states that their...

by Richard Lawrence Poe Monday, November 5, 2007 Permanent LinkMore Columns FOUR YEARS ago, leftist billionaire George Soros vowed to bring down President Bush, but failed. Now he is making another power play, this time in Europe. Soros knows Europe better than he does America. He may get what he wants this time; a reversal of his 2002 criminal conviction for insider trading. On January 29, 2002, a French court convicted Soros of illegal trades in connection with a takeover attempt on a French bank. Soros appealed his conviction twice without success. Now he awaits his fourth trial at...

From: European Council on Foreign Relations Date: September 29, 2007 7:40:33 PM EDT Subject: Comunicato stampa: 50 personalita' europee chiedono una politica estera dell' UE piu' incisiva Reply-To: press@ecfr.eu 50 illustri personalità europee fanno appello all'Unione Europea affinché assuma un ruolo determinante nel definire l'ordine mondiale Inaugurazione del primo centro studi paneuropeo con sedi a Berlino, Londra, Madrid, Parigi, Roma, Sofia e Varsavia volto alla promozione di una politica estera europea piu' coerente ed incisiva. Embargo stampa: martedì 2 ottobre 00.01 (Londra) Mentre l'Europa si prepara ad adottare un nuovo trattato, risultato della conferenza intergovernativa che si concluderà a Lisbona...

The new think tank the European Council on Foreign Relations hopes to steer the European Union back onto the center of the world stage. Its 50 founding members include leading European intellectuals such as Timothy Garton Ash, Joschka Fischer, Brian Eno and Rem Koolhaas. The European Union is 50 years old this year, and two years into its mid-life crisis; ever since the resounding French and Dutch "no" votes against the European Constitution, the bloc has languished in stagnation, paralyzed by indecision and a lack of confidence. "The EU continues to underperform on the world stage," wrote former German Foreign...

SPIEGEL ONLINE talks to historian and Oxford professor Timothy Garton Ash about the European Union's weak image in the world, the limits to EU expansion and how Europe should tackle Russia and Iran.Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies at St. Antony's College, Oxford, a senior fellow at the Stanford University-based think tank the Hoover Institution and a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a new European think tank. He has earned renown for a genre of writing he calls the "history of the present." His eight books feature historical analysis of transformations undergone in Europe...