"The West as we knew it no longer exists," Ursula von der Leyen has declared amid rapidly deteriorating relations with the United States under Donald Trump's administration, which has forced Europe to look elsewhere for allies and partners.
In the aftermath of Trump's sweeping tariffs, which Brussels has decried as "neither credible nor justified", the president of the European Commission has been working the phones with representatives from Norway, Iceland, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. Von der Leyen has also spoken with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, fuelling speculation of an imminent thaw in EU-China ties after years of tensions.
