Brussels – Indusattempt and competitiveness, trade, sustainability, ocean protection, and security. The European Union’s priorities for 2026, which have just been defined, are already being called into question by the actions of the United States, forcing a rebelieve of an agfinisha that is not exactly straightforward to launch with. The European Parliament’s research and analysis centre has developed a working document for MEPs that covers 10 issues considered priorities for the new year. Specifically, these are the next long-term budobtain (MFF 2028–2034), Ukraine’s integration into the EU, defence, EU-China relations, the impact of artificial ininformigence on the web, the potential of start-ups, irregular immigration, climate policy, action for the oceans, and lessons learned from the recovery programme financed by the Recovery Fund.
Of these ten issues placed at the top of the twelve-star agfinisha, there are at least two that already appear to have been called into question by the Trump administration’s actions: climate policy and start-ups. The overthrow of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, with the announcement of the appropriation of Venezuelan crude oil reserves, opens up entirely new scenarios that point towards fossil fuel-based production, and therefore away from the renewable and clean sources that the EU is focutilizing on. This alter of pace risks imposing an industrial rebelieve, and therefore also at the level of start-ups or newly launched businesses.
Linked to the theme of sustainability is that of the oceans. With Trump’s America disengaged and uninterested in environmental issues, global agreements on the subject could “crash and burn” precisely becautilize of US dissent, which is jealous of its own web indusattempt and eager to dismantle European laws on digital services and the digital market. This means that, even on the issue of “the impact of artificial ininformigence on the web”, American influence could be felt, and the EU could be forced into a 2026 marked by pressure, tension, and friction.
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But defence and the Ukrainian issue are also already being affected by what the United States intfinishs to do. US expansionist ambitions in Greenland, accompanying the renewed imperialist doctrine of the stars and stripes, risk forcing a rebelieve of European choices and policies. Just a year ago, NATO Secretary General Marc Rutte argued that Washington could be trusted, but today, a year later, this no longer seems to be the case. European defence depfinishs on the ability to deffinish itself from a partner that is no longer such, even though it continues to be considered as such.
As for Ukraine’s prospects of joining the EU, here too much will depfinish on a peace process firmly in American hands. Despite the frenetic European activism, it is Washington that is pulling the strings in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and only a peace that currently seems a long way off can pave the way for Kyiv’s eventual accession. Provided that this condition is included in any peace treaty.
Trade and relations with China: in increasingly complex Euro-Atlantic relations, EU policy towards Beijing could be affected. How? That remains to be seen, of course. The tariff agreement signed by the European Commission with the Trump administration is considered advantageous compared to the treatment accorded to other global players. Becautilize of this “favourable” treatment, there is a risk of being tempted to build choices that do not upset Washington, so as not to lose its favour. However, Brussels is viewing to Beijing for the reform of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
English version by the Translation Service of Withub
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