When Donald Trump began his second term in the White House, many European leaders chose flattery over a fight.

The NATO Secretary General praising the U.S. President for brokering this ceasefire deal, referring to him as daddy, who sometimes has to separate two children.

Starrmer mentioned more than once that President Trump was being issued this special invitation

to come back to the UK, and he noted how unusual and unprecedented that is.

Even through tariffs and threats of a Greenland takeover,

most of Europe's leaders tried to avoid a public confrontation.

Even after the war in Iran began, few openly condemned the move reluctant to take on the Trump administration.

But as the weeks have dragged on,

we're now seeing European leaders across the political

spectrum, from longtime allies to ideological rivals, willing to openly contradict and

criticize the American president.

But clashing with Trump comes with consequences.

President Trump is threatening an even larger withdrawal, all because of the German

Chancellor's criticism of the war in Iran.

From the BBC, I'm Asma Khalid in Washington, D.C.

And today on the global story, President Trump is facing a more defiant Europe.

Why now?

And what does that mean for an already shaky transatlantic

alliance? I'm Katia Adler. I'm the BBC's Europediter based in Brussels. But it's my job to kind of

zoom all over the continent when things get juicy.

As they are right now, which is why we wanted to talk to you.

We spoke to Katya as tensions had been ratcheting up between Trump and Europe.

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