One hundred days of Trump: the amazement of European allies in the face of contempt for the President of the United States
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress / Le Monde
Europeans from all sides are still struggling to adapt to aggressive and chaotic diplomatic methods of the American administration.
The surprise remained across the throat of diplomats. In early April, Donald Trump took everyone by announcing the resumption of negotiations between Tehran and Washington for a new agreement on Iranian nuclear, seven years after denouncing the previous compromise, during his first mandate.
On this file, a fourth meeting is scheduled for Rome on Saturday May 3, but no one understands, in European capitals as in Tehran, where the United States wants. Nor what is the team that must lead the talks, apart from the essential special envoy of the American president, Steve Witkoff, a novice in diplomacy.
In Europe as elsewhere, several high-ranking leaders and diplomats were already in office during the first term of Donald Trump (2017-2021). They knew his rough ways, but reassured themselves by repeating that the American president was first “transactional” and that, in this context, there was a space for the discussion.
