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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policies Editor-in-Chief.

This is FP Live.

So, in just two months in office, U.S. President Donald Trump has royal relations with key allies.

Europe in particular has been jolted on several fronts by Trump's threats to invade Greenland,

his steep tariffs, his scolding of Ukrainian President Zelensky in the Oval Office,

and of course, Vice President J.D. Vance's now infamous speech in Munich last month, where he also met with the head of Germany's far-right party, the AFD. How should Europe respond? In the past month,

there's been a flurry of high-level diplomacy,

with flashy convenings in places like Paris and London and Brussels.

There's been a lot of talk.

But what action will Europeans actually take,

not only regarding tariffs, but also their defense,

...