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According to analysts and officials both in the EU and in the US, expectations that Joe Biden’s administration would restore the relationship between the two blocs have long been abandoned.
Frictions between Brussels and Washington over Afghanistan, the AUKUS defence deal, Russia and China, have left experts pessimistic about a return to pre-Trump relations.
And as the US prepares for the midterm elections, a return of Republicans in Congress could further exacerbate the mood.
Speaking to Bruce Stokes, visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, for Politico, a former US ambassador to NATO said: “[2021 events] fed a conclusion in Europe that the relationship with the US will never go back to 2016.”
A Polish foreign policy expert also warned: “You have to know that you have no other friends than Europe.
“If you screw up talking with us, that undermines the US system of alliances and that is not useful for the…