From the Center for European Reform, this is the CERR podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the CER podcast.

My name is Sophia Beshe and I'm a research fellow here at the Center for European Reform.

And today I'm in conversation with Ian Bond, who's a foreign policy director,

and Sam Lowe, who's also a research fellow here at the CR. And today is another bulletin podcast.

Every two months, the CEO publishes the bulletin, where we zoom in on three European topics that

are particularly important and go in with an analysis that should have a bit of a longer shelf life.

This bulletin is looking at Trump and Europe, at Brexit, TTIP and the City of London, and at

defense negotiations between the EU and the UK. As ever, the three researchers get three questions

and five minutes each. Let's start with you, Ian. You've written a piece on Trump and

Europe Atlantic hurricane season. You've written that piece before the G7 summit, but surely now

it's even more relevant. Can the transatlantic partnership be saved after the G7 fiasco?

It certainly can be saved, but this has certainly not made it any easier. I mean, everything

about the G7 and the relationship between Trump and the other participants

seems to have gone badly, really, both in terms of the discussion on trade

and the fact that Trump having signed up very reluctantly to the communique,

then took offence at something that Justin Trudeau said

and walked that back and claimed he'd been stabbed in the back by his allies

and then sent his surrogates out to be extremely offensive to his allies.

All of that is not helping to preserve a good transatlantic relationship.

But how much of a threat is Trump really to the international trading system?

How much of this is bluster and how much of it will have lasting consequences?

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