HOW CORONA VIRUS EXPOSED THE DRIFT IN THE US AND EUROPEAN TIES

The spread of Corona Virus, started from Wughan, China. After taking the lives of hundreds of people there, the virus spread across the continents and within three months reached Europe, America and Australia. The COVID-19 took its toll on industry, economy and society altogether.

Widespread shutdown of business, schools, travels, social gatherings and key political as well as sports events, C OVID-19 disease has been declared as global Pandemic by the WHO. No cure in sight so far, the pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities in the US and its European allies.

President Trump’s travel ban on 26 Europeans nations led chaos in the European Union, as according to the European council president Charles Michel and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, the decision was unilateral and taken without consulting them. Exempting Britain from the travel ban showed the increasing mistrust in the alliance. When American and European relations concerned such a decision is unimaginable and unprecedented since the First World War.

It is widely believed that, though COVID-19 is the pretext for outright travel ban from European countries, there were some other underlying issues on which the Trump administration is furious about the Europeans.

Since Donald Trump came to power, there were lot of disagreements with the European countries on various issues ranging from world climate issue, NATO military spending, Iranian nuclear agreements, trade tariffs, Chinese HUWEI 5G networks, and so on. Unlike his predecessors, Donald Trump was not ready to be generous with the Europeans allies; his America first policy irked the Europeans to a greater extent.

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