
Good morning. I’m Mared Gwyn bringing you this Monday newsletter with our EU correspondent Maïa de La Baume.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s address to the Munich Security Conference (MSC) seems to have split European into two camps: those who breathed a sigh of relief at his softer tone and talk of an “intertwined destiny” for the US and Europe, and those who still feel the sting of his warning of an impending “civilizational erasure” for the continent.