‘The weakening of France has a spillover effect on the EU’: Spain’s ex-FM Gonzalez

As the EU political season gets back into full swing, member states are confronted by daunting challenges. In the last few days, they have revisited the thorny question of providing security guarantees to Ukraine – which, of course, means dealing with the notoriously mercurial US president, Donald Trump. Transatlantic tensions are obvious, both politically and on the trade side of things – despite an EU-US agreement on tariffs struck at the end of July. We take a closer look at the geopolitical and economic headwinds faced by the EU with Arancha Gonzalez Laya, the dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po university. She is a former foreign minister of Spain, and a former senior official at the World Trade Organization and the United Nations.