CHez, in the United States, the opponents demonstrate under the slogan “No King”, but in Europe nothing is too good to flatter the Ego of Donald Trump. It was therefore in the royal apartments of Huis Ten Bosch, the Palais du Roi du Netherlands, that the President of the United States spent the night of June 24 to 25, the only head of state participating in the NATO summit in The Hague to be entitled to this honor. While he had breakfast with King Willem-Alexander, the other 31 leaders, at the hotel, hoped very hard that this ceremonial put him in a good mood to face their plenary session.
There is only one, fortunately. Because everything has been planned to restrict the risks of skid on the part of this partner as irascible as it is unpredictable. A single plenary meeting, unlike the summary ritual. A single dinner, offered by the king and the queen, with spouses – the ideal formula to avoid the angry subjects. The presence of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has been the subject of long negotiations: many member states held there, but his participation was likely to irritate President Trump. He was finally associated with the royal dinner, more trivial.
The thorny question of Russia was also asked in the final declaration. In 2024, the press release from the Washington summit called the country as Vladimir Putin as “The most important threat”. It was Joe Biden’s time; In 2025, this vocabulary no longer suited to the White House.
How far should you go to spare a president of the United States who makes no mystery of his disdain for his European partners or the detestation that the European Union (EU) inspires in him? Faced with this puzzle for five months, the leaders of the old continent have chosen to bend the spine to avoid the breakup. So far, the method has not been successful.
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