UE e USA alla prova del Covid-19. Verso una nuova era delle relazioni transatlantiche?

Abstract

For more than seventy years, the United States and the European Union have been bound by an important bond that, despite some difficulties, has never really entered into crisis. The presidency of Donald Trump, however, has challenged this bond by creating a rift between the parties that, in the wake of the health, economic and political crisis caused by Covid-19, has become ever deeper. Moreover, the US propensity to manage the pandemic in a unilateral manner seems to have reawakened, in the Europeans, the desire and need to develop a strategic autonomy with which to deal with the various crises that characterise the international system. If such a scenario might lead one to believe that the transatlantic partnership is on its waning path, in reality the arrival of Joe Biden at the White House seems to breathe new life into the transatlantic bond. In relation to the latter, this paper explores the issue of US-EU relations before, during and after the pandemic crisis.