# Europe is allowing itself to be dominated by the US. It just isn’t admitting as much
**Date de l'événement :** 09/10/2025
* Publié le 09/10/2025

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For 80 years, Europe maintained an asymmetric yet cooperative relationship with the United States. This imbalance, long accepted as the price of stability and protection, has shifted dramatically under US President Donald Trump. What was once a strategically uneven interdependence has become an unbreakable grip, which is used to exert pressure while being denied by its victims.  
  
In my book, l’Atlantisme est mort ? Vive l’Europe ! (Is Atlanticism Dead? Long Live Europe!), I describe this shift by introducing the concept of “emprisme”: a permitted grip in which Europeans, believing themselves to be partners, become dependent on a power that dominates them without their full awareness.  
  
Emprisme does not merely refer to influence or soft power, but an internalised strategic subordination. Europeans justify this dependence in the name of realism, security, or economic stability, without recognising that it structurally weakens them.  
  
In Trump’s worldview, Europeans are no longer allies but freeloaders. The common market enabled them to become the world’s largest consumer zone and strengthen their companies’ competitiveness, including in the US market. Meanwhile, through NATO, they let Washington bear the costs of collective defence.  
  
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## Auteur(s)
Sylvain Kahn

### Date
09/10/2025

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### Thématique(s)
`#Diplomatie` `#Défense / sécurité` 

### Aire(s) géographique(s)
`#Amérique du Nord` `#Europe` 

### Langue(s)
`#Anglais` 

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