Yet three months on, as the deadline for a compromise looms, Europe’s own syndrome risks emerging: a tendency to look more like a collection of Asterix villages than a cohesive whole.
Donald Trump's April tariff barrage felt like the height of hubris.
It infuriated allies, damaged his popularity at home and triggered financial-market chaos so acute the whole thing was paused within days — the latest sign of America’s Icarus-like tendency to try to remake the world every few decades.
