US-European relations in the age of America First
On Friday, AEI and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) hosted a discussion on US-European relations in the age of the Trump administration’s America First policy. David Marsh, managing director and cofounder of OMFIF, led the discussion. The panel examined how US-European trade and economic and political relations have changed under the Trump administration.
Daniel Ahn, the deputy chief economist at the US Department of State, discussed the balance between fair trade and free trade. Marek Belka, the former prime minister of Poland, argued that there is currently a crisis of globalization occurring in the US and Europe. AEI’s Stan Veuger discussed the impact of the shift away from a multilateral mind-set to an “America First” mind-set.
The panelists discussed the future of global free trade and the potential barriers to trade that could arise with the new administration. They concluded with a discussion on whether the US will embark on the next stage of multilateralism or oppose international institutions created by the US itself.
