{"id":138115,"date":"2025-03-10T07:35:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T05:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/after-80-years-of-transatlantic-ties-europe-forges-a-new-alliance\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T07:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T05:35:54","slug":"after-80-years-of-transatlantic-ties-europe-forges-a-new-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/after-80-years-of-transatlantic-ties-europe-forges-a-new-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"After 80 years of transatlantic ties, Europe forges a new alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138115\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>\nWhen he rose to his feet at prime minister\u2019s questions on Wednesday, Keir Starmer delivered a stirring tribute to six British soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan 13 years ago. He read out their names very deliberately, one by one. The House was silent. The prime minister then added a tribute to a 22-year-old British Royal Marine, also killed on 6 March, but in 2007 in Helmand province.<\/p>\n<p>They were poignant moments, on what is normally a raucous and crudely partisan occasion in the political week. Across the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Starmer told MPs, 642 individuals had died \u201cfighting for Britain alongside our allies\u201d. Many more had been wounded. \u201cWe will never forget their bravery and their sacrifice,\u201d Starmer said.<\/p>\n<p>But the prime minister\u2019s tributes were not just for the families of the lost soldiers. Nor were they just for British ears. They were also intended to be heard loud and clear in the US, inside Donald Trump\u2019s administration, most notably by vice president JD Vance, who the day before had appeared to disrespect British troops by saying that a US stake in Ukraine\u2019s economy was a \u201cbetter security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn\u2019t fought a war in 30 or 40 years\u201d.Less than a week after Starmer\u2019s tactile \u201clove in\u201d with Donald Trump in the White House, views on how to react to the new US administration had evolved, not just here, but across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Vance\u2019s wild, erratic and at times insulting comments about European governments, had left politicians on this side of the Atlantic facing two dawning realities: first, that they had, somehow, to find ways to push back against Trump and Vance without stoking tensions to even more dangerous levels. And second that for the long-term they had to formulate a real plan for a world in which the US would no longer be the cornerstone of western security. As one European diplomat put it: \u201cIt has become clear that Trump is not saying what he is saying just to shake us up, but he is saying it because he means it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amid the turbulence, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Brussels on Thursday attending an EU summit called to address the security crisis. To the sound of spontaneous clapping, EU leaders rose to their feet to shake his hand, offering backslaps and air kisses. While Zelensky was there Trump\u2019s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg gave a brutal justification of his country\u2019s decision to freeze military aid: \u201cThe best way I can describe it is sort of like hitting a mule with a two by four across the nose. You get their attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Signs that Europe was undergoing a historic shift could be heard everywhere, from the rhetoric of French President Emmanuel Macron, to the hugely ambitious ideas for collective defence being voiced by the European Commission, to the announcement on Friday by the Polish prime minister Donald Tusk for all men in his country to undergo military training.<\/p>\n<p>But it was in Germany that the change was seismic. After months campaigning in defence of his country\u2019s strict \u201cdebt brake\u201d, incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz struck a deal with his likely coalition partners, the SPD, to raise hundreds of billions of euros for defence and infrastructure. Strict rules on debt underpinned post-war Germany\u2019s entire economic structure. But now needs must. \u201cGiven the threat to our freedom and to peace on our continent, the mantra for our defence has to be \u2013 whatever it takes,\u201d Merz said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/09\/after-80-years-of-transatlantic-ties-europe-forges-a-new-alliance wwx\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/after-80-years-of-transatlantic-ties-europe-forges-a-new-alliance\/\">After 80 years of transatlantic ties, Europe forges a new alliance<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,18168],"class_list":["post-138115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-transatlantic-ties"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}