{"id":85761,"date":"2026-06-16T23:04:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/after-a-bitter-split-european-leaders-play-nice-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:04:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:04:32","slug":"after-a-bitter-split-european-leaders-play-nice-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/after-a-bitter-split-european-leaders-play-nice-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"After a Bitter Split, European Leaders Play Nice With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">When Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany presented President Trump with a soccer jersey emblazoned with the number 47 on Tuesday morning, it was the kind of gesture that a foreign leader might have made during his first term: flattering, emollient, and calculated to please.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">But Mr. Merz was doing it after a rancorous stretch, in which he and other European leaders condemned the war in Iran, provoking Mr. Trump to announce that the United States would pull some American troops from the Continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Europe\u2019s alliance with the United States may still be on the rocks, but on the first full day of a Group of 7 summit meeting at this Alpine spa town in France, the leaders showed they remained ready to behave politely toward Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">For all the sharp elbows of the last year, they appear to have concluded that the best way to deal with a disruptive president is to court him, particularly since they still hope to engage the United States on thorny issues like the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cWe\u2019re on the same team,\u201d Mr. Merz said of the president on social media, wishing him a belated happy 80th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Such conciliatory words would have seemed improbable even a week ago, given the bitter split over Iran, Mr. Trump\u2019s threats to take over Greenland and his regular hectoring of Europe\u2019s centrist leaders \u2014 all of which persuaded several of them that America was no longer an ally, and was even, in some cases, a threat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Now, though, Mr. Trump has presented at least the contours of a peace deal with Iran, and Europe\u2019s leaders have gone back to charming him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cThat\u2019s how diplomacy delivers,\u201d said Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, congratulating Mr. Trump on the framework. She said it would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, drive down oil prices and perhaps even ultimately put an end to Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">At one level, the bonhomie was scarcely a surprise. Even in the absence of a peace accord, analysts and diplomats predicted that the other six leaders in the Group of 7, representing the world\u2019s advanced industrial countries, would work to prevent the meeting from collapsing in acrimony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cEuropeans in private now broadly accept that they can\u2019t wait out Trump and that something quite fundamental in the trans-Atlantic relationship has changed,\u201d said Jeremy Shapiro, a director at the European Council on Foreign Relations, a research group with offices in Berlin and London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cBut of course the rupture does not give Europeans an alternative plan,\u201d Mr. Shapiro said. \u201cSo, they have to play nice with Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">The president also shook up the calculus by announcing his peace agreement on the eve of the gathering. If the United States and Iran were to conclude a definitive deal \u2014 a major if, given all the uncertainties \u2014 it would be an economic lift to European economies that have been choked by the disruption to oil and gas shipments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">The three months of hostilities between the United States and Iran have put Europe\u2019s leaders in a nearly impossible position. They have been caught between Mr. Trump, who castigated them for failing to support the effort even as he demeaned their potential contributions, and their own populations, which are mostly opposed to the war and increasingly frustrated by the economic fallout from it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain pledged this week to quickly deploy military assets to help ships navigate the Strait of Hormuz once it was clear the new cease-fire would hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cWe do want to make sure that where we\u2019ve got capability \u2014 and demining is an obvious example \u2014 where we\u2019re coordinating that we agree a way forward with the United States and others to get the Strait of Hormuz open as soon as possible,\u201d Mr. Starmer said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Macron, the host of the meeting, set the tone for catering to Mr. Trump, inviting him to dinner at Versailles, the palace of France\u2019s kings, on Wednesday to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">It was a page out of the playbook he used during Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, when he invited him to watch a military parade on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, a grand boulevard in central Paris. And the strategy worked again, with Mr. Trump \u2014 who has a well-advertised interest in buildings laden with gold \u2014 marveling at Versailles\u2019s gilt-edged d\u00e9cor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cI was leaving in the afternoon and then the French president, who happens to be a very nice man, invited me to dinner at Versailles,\u201d Mr. Trump told reporters. \u201cVersailles is not a gold leaf. Versailles is the real deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">However polite the exchanges between Mr. Trump and Europeans, there was little evidence they had changed the president\u2019s views about getting involved in a settlement to end the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Speaking to reporters, he reiterated his position that it is not America\u2019s fight. \u201cWe have nothing to do with it, we sell weapons to them,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cIt has no impact on us, other than we sell weapons. We\u2019re thousands of miles away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">There were more subtle signs that the personal rapport between Mr. Trump and European leaders had frayed. Mr. Trump did not hold a one-on-one meeting with Mr. Starmer, forcing the British prime minister to insist that he had not been snubbed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump did meet one on one with the leaders of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar \u2014 Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani \u2014 thanking them for their support on the Iran war, with a warmth that seemed absent from his encounters with the Europeans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">When Sheikh Mohamed offered barely audible thanks back to Mr. Trump, the president joked that only a man of the Emirati\u2019s wealth could afford to speak in such a quiet voice, and command a room. He praised Sheikh Tamim for bravery and for Qatar\u2019s billions of dollars of investment in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Mr. Trump spent much of the day defending his agreement with Iran, the details of which he has not yet released. He dismissed reports that the United States had agreed to invest $300 billion in Iran. \u201cWe are not investing any money,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cWe have no obligation to invest any money in Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">The president added that the deal includes a pledge that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon \u2014 something it has long said publicly \u2014 and warned that the country would suffer \u201cunbelievable consequences\u201d if it pursued one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">\u201cThat\u2019s the reason I got in,\u201d Mr. Trump said, \u201cand that\u2019s the reason I agreed to sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-f3337s erlrjdy0\">Reporting was contributed by <!-- -->Erica L. 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