The solution to Trump’s bullying? Create a federal Europe that is no longer dependent on the US

[u/EUstrongerthanUS]

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/03/28/the-solution-to-trumps-bullying-create-a-federal-europe-that-is-no-longer-dependent-on-the-us/

[u/Brother_Jankosi]

The solution to our problems? Wait for a miracle to happen.

[u/miss_shivers]

Better yet, create a Transatlantic Federation and replace the usurper trump regime.

[u/Constant-Listen834]

Yea considering Europe hasn’t even removed their dependence on Russia, the US dependence isn’t going away anytime soon 

[u/Secondchance002 → u/Constant-Listen834]

If only Germany didn’t abandon the nuclear but instead went hard for it like the French.

[u/Foucault_Please_No]

Oh is that all?

[u/BudgetBen]

Is it a good idea in theory? Sure. But there are many practical (or rather political) obstacles to this that don't go away just because the U.S. has become an unreliable partner. Everyone also underestimates the degree to which EU integration is actually a byproduct of U.S. influence. Put another way: if we think Trump is resetting the world order to what it was in the early 1900s, we should really consider what Europe looked like back then too.

[u/The-wirdest-guy]

The solution to current very real threat? An extremely unrealistic solution that remains decades out of reach and would require years of negotiations if it were attainable right now.

[u/DangerousCyclone]

This is so insane to think about. 100 years ago this kind if headline would make little sense. 

[u/Dahaaaa → u/DangerousCyclone]

A lot of things wouldn't make sense. Like 2 ply toilet paper.

[u/sanity_rejecter → u/DangerousCyclone]

it makes little sense now

[u/OliveWhisperer]

Just get rid of trump that’s the best solution

[u/hypsignathus]

This article is actually pretty bland and super convoluted.

[u/BlueString94]

If we think this week was bad for economic sentiment, wait till Europe federalizes. The Euro becoming a serious challenge to the dollar as reserve currency would destroy US equities overnight. And if the Euro were to in fact replace the dollar, it will make the capital flight that Liz Truss went through look like peanuts in comparison. We are talking a total collapse of the American economy and society.

Lucky for us Europe is never going to get its act together.

[u/SubjectSuggestion571 → u/BlueString94]

This is all absolutely not true. The Euro would certainly get a bit stronger, but it wouldn’t immediately usurp the dollar and equity flight wouldn’t happen unless there was serious change in EU policy

[u/Secondchance002 → u/BlueString94]

EU is actively trying to recruit the disgruntled American scientists. Immigrants no longer consider US to be as desirable as they once did. First time in over a century US might not be at the receiving end of the “brain drain”.

[u/Dabamanos → u/Secondchance002]

I mean it’s Europes game to lose on that front but I’ll believe it when I see it

[u/fredleung412612 → u/BlueString94]

Not overnight. The peso de ocho only lost its crown as reserve currency centuries after the Spanish Empire declined into irrelevancy. It should take decades of gradual decline in USD power to get usurped, these things don't happen overnight.

[u/OhNoDominoDomino]

Waste of time article, will never happen and anyone advocating for it is deeply unserious and ignoring the political reality of every single European nation where this idea is a fringe belief at best. Deeper integration is impossible with now disparate the current EU is, the leadership need to figure out a way of turning the ship around within the current framework, faults and all as there is zero appetite for a negotiation of the Lisbon Treaty, let alone federalisation.

[u/fredleung412612]

Come back to me when Volt or DiEM25 sweep to victory at the 2029 European elections... I'm not one to say federalization will never happen, but it would take an actual world war for things to move in that direction. We're not there.