CNN reports the cozy relationship the US has enjoyed with Europe for the past seventy years is being reconsidered on both sides of the Atlantic.<br />Earlier this week, the EU declined to include the US in its list of 'safe countries.'<br />Americans will be unwelcome inside the bloc for the foreseeable future, due to the eyewatering US coronavirus infection numbers.<br />Sure to irk the Trump administration, the list does include China -- the country where the virus originated -- on the condition of reciprocal arrangements.<br />Velina Tchakarova is from the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy.<br />She says that President Donald Trump is undermining EU efforts to strengthen their autonomy in matters of security and defense.<br />He's doing it, Tchakarova says, through his attacks on the European NATO members, and economic and trade measures.<br />The problem is, officials in DC...have hung on as long as they can but if we get a second Trump term, then we are in real trouble. Velina Tchakarova Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy
