{"id":40086,"date":"2025-04-29T05:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T05:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/the-eu-cant-replace-the-us-as-a-global-player-until-it-sheds-its-own-colonial-thinking-shada-islam\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T05:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T05:25:10","slug":"the-eu-cant-replace-the-us-as-a-global-player-until-it-sheds-its-own-colonial-thinking-shada-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/the-eu-cant-replace-the-us-as-a-global-player-until-it-sheds-its-own-colonial-thinking-shada-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU can\u2019t replace the US as a global player until it sheds its own colonial thinking | Shada Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eurocentric assumptions and bullying resource-grabs are justified causes of outrage in the global south<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has disrupted the global economy with his disastrous tariff wars and appears hell-bent on gutting transatlantic relations. I am hoping he has also unwittingly injected new life into the EU\u2019s struggle to wean itself off overreliance on Washington.<\/p>\n<p>A vast network of <a href=\"https:\/\/policy.trade.ec.europa.eu\/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region\/negotiations-and-agreements_en\">trade<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/international-partnerships.ec.europa.eu\/index_en\">aid<\/a> agreements connects the EU with more than 70 countries. The union could become an important standalone global actor and even thrive in a multipolar world. But it must first shed its Eurocentric worldviews, complacent policymaking and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/eu-un-palestinians-israel-gaza-ukraine-support-f39d88f1308204b099f0e5b84c83b4ff\">double standards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shada Islam is a Brussels-based commentator on EU affairs. She runs New Horizons Project, a strategy, analysis and advisory company<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/29\/eu-replace-us-global-player-colonial-thinking-global-south\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurocentric assumptions and bullying resource-grabs are justified causes of outrage in the global south Donald Trump has disrupted the global economy with his disastrous tariff wars and appears hell-bent on gutting transatlantic relations. I am hoping he has also unwittingly injected new life into the EU\u2019s struggle to wean itself off overreliance on Washington. A &#8230; <a title=\"The EU can\u2019t replace the US as a global player until it sheds its own colonial thinking | Shada Islam\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/the-eu-cant-replace-the-us-as-a-global-player-until-it-sheds-its-own-colonial-thinking-shada-islam\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The EU can\u2019t replace the US as a global player until it sheds its own colonial thinking | Shada Islam\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}