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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emma Graham-Harrison

After America: can Europe learn to go it alone without the US?

A row of alternating US and EU flags next to each other on flagpoles
Politicians around the world – but especially in Europe – are reckoning with a sudden reduction in the level of American involvement in their countries. Photograph: John Thys/AFP/Getty Images

The German ­electronics firm Hensoldt has a backlog of orders for its technology, ­including radars that protect Ukraine from Russian airstrikes. Meanwhile, Germany’s car industry is struggling with low European demand and competition from China.

As Europe worries about how it can weather the economic and ­political turmoil unleashed by Donald Trump, executives from Munich and Düsseldorf say they have at least a partial answer.

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