{"id":96485,"date":"2020-11-09T10:03:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T04:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/europe-expects-improved-transatlantic-relations-but-not-a-return-to-status-quo\/"},"modified":"2020-11-09T22:57:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T16:57:23","slug":"europe-expects-improved-transatlantic-relations-but-not-a-return-to-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/europe-expects-improved-transatlantic-relations-but-not-a-return-to-status-quo\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Expects Improved Transatlantic Relations, But Not a Return to Status Quo\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u202fEuropean leaders and officials are not expecting transatlantic relations to snap back to the way things were before Donald Trump was elected U.S. president, but they do anticipate a narrowing of the gaps between America and Europe with Joe Biden in the White House. <\/p>\n
\u201cRelations will be less abrasive and we won\u2019t have to weather a presidential commentary of needling all-caps tweets,\u201d a senior German official told VOA. \u201cBut there's also much that divides us. It isn\u2019t just that America has changed \u2014 so, too, has Europe,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n
But the official, who advises German Chancellor Angela Merkel and is not authorized to brief the media, says there is an expectation of a much more multilateralist approach from Washington as well as a determination to shore up the rules-based international framework the United States long championed before Trump. <\/p>\n
Reset <\/strong><\/p>\n Trump expressed a general distrust of multilateral organizations, seemingly returning to an era of powerful, independent nation states dealing with each other bilaterally rather than via international organizations. Biden is expected to reset Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d foreign policy and to reverse several of Trump\u2019s signature moves. <\/p>\n