Nicola Marchant

1 month ago | ukandeu.ac.uk | Anand Menon |Nicola Marchant

Anand Menon looks at the impact Donald Trump’s presidency is having on UK relations with the EU and the proposed ‘reset’. Four weeks in, and all those comforting certainties have evaporated. Our – at the time – cautious and sensible assessment of where the UK-EU reset might be heading now feels horribly dated. Donald Trump has well and truly shaken the kaleidoscope of world politics, and it is too early to know precisely where the pieces will settle.

1 month ago | ukandeu.ac.uk | Anand Menon |Nicola Marchant

Anand Menon looks at the impact the Donald Trump presidency and US relations are having on UK relations with the EU. Four weeks in, and all those comforting certainties have evaporated. Our – at the time – cautious and sensible assessment of where the UK-EU reset might be heading now feels horribly dated. Donald Trump has well and truly shaken the kaleidoscope of world politics, and it is too early to know precisely where the pieces will settle.

1 month ago | ukandeu.ac.uk | Nicola Marchant |David Reynolds

David Reynolds examines summits throughout history and the recent meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump. The term “summit” was coined by Winston Churchill in 1950, during the dark days of the Cold War. He declared that it was “not easy to see how matters could be worsened by a parley at the summit.” One wonders how he would have rated Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s encounter with Donald Trump last Friday in the White House.