“Mexico and Canada are bullfighting with total skill: Europe has to learn.” Garvía
Luis Garvía Vega, director of the Risk Master at ICADE, recalls that, before the arrival of Trump, the tariff system already benefited Europe in some key sectors, which would explain the US will to rebalance the balance. Even so, he argues that the main problem of union is not economic, but political: the lack of a common fiscal and strategic position weakens its unified response capacity.
Garvía alerts that Trump could exploit those internal divisions of the community block to force advantageous bilateral agreements, a tactic that has already launched in other regions. In his opinion, the fragmentation of Europe, both in foreign policy and in defense, represents a structural vulnerability. Remember, for example, that NATO has 17 different types of tanks manufactured by European countries, which contrasts with the efficiency and logistics unit of the United States. That lack of coordination, he says, is a perfect metaphor of the challenge that Europe faces: responding with a single voice against an aggressive and calculated commercial strategy.
