Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi gestures during the lawsuit "Two Peoples, Two States, One Destiny" promoted by Azione, Italia Viva, and + Europa, a nationalist statement connected the Israeli-Palestinian struggle and aims astatine supporting a solution based connected the peaceful coexistence of 2 states, successful Milan connected June 6, 2025.
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The European Union needs to measurement up its relation successful planetary affairs arsenic tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump physique up, according to erstwhile Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
His comments to CNBC travel aft Trump said that the EU was "not going to beryllium capable to help" ending the struggle successful the Middle East, wherever Iran and Israel person been astatine war.
A ceasefire betwixt the 2 determination foes was successful effect, according to Trump, but the concern remains delicate and uncertain.
Regardless, Trump's disapproval of Europe follows different events wherever the continent has struggled to person a spot astir the table, including successful bid conversations betwixt Ukraine and Russia.
"There is simply a precise analyzable situation, due to the fact that our champion ally, United States of America, and POTUS, President of the United States of America, attack[s] america each day, each week, each month," said Renzi, present person of the Italia Viva party.
"And delight retrieve now, successful this moment, determination is not an statement astir tariffs, and that is simply a tragedy," Renzi told CNBC's "Europe Early Edition" connected Tuesday.
The U.S. and the EU person been astatine likelihood implicit trade, with Turmp announcing respective rounds of tariffs since taking office.
The transatlantic confederation is presently trying to scope an statement that prevents some, if not all, of the duties enactment successful place. The thought is to scope a compromise earlier a deadline of July 9.
However, the 2 sides person besides not seen eye-to-eye erstwhile it comes to defence and overseas argumentation matters, with European nations progressively anxious astatine the thought Trump mightiness standard backmost U.S. subject beingness connected the European continent.
Renzi said that Europe grew up with the thought that its confederation with the U.S. is the best, but fixed the challenges successful the relationship, the portion indispensable "wake up and effort to play a relation arsenic Europeans."
This is an thought shared by others connected the European continent.
Enrico Letta, different erstwhile Italian premier minister, said successful a Financial Times op-ed published Sunday that: "Donald Trump's actions successful his 2nd word marque wide that we are dealing with a semipermanent strategical imaginativeness that aims to reshape America's planetary role, weaken multilateralism and summation unit connected allies, particularly Europe".
As such, Letta defended that Europe "must fortify its autonomy and capableness to act."
Meanwhile, the German and French leaders acknowledged connected Monday that the U.S. has antithetic priorities nether the presidency of Trump and that arsenic specified the portion needs to perpetrate to walk much connected defense.
"We volition unrecorded for the foreseeable aboriginal successful a profoundly destabilised environment, and successful a satellite successful which our allies volition person different dilemmas and priorities," the 2 heads of authorities said successful a abstracted Financial Times op-ed, adding: "We volition person to emergence to these challenges."
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