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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