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While identity politics and sentiment prevail in America, facts and reason tend to dominate policy-making in Europe (Photo: Author)

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Is Europe's rational response to Trump's irrationality going to be enough?

“On major strategic and international questions today, Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus,” the American historian and columnist Robert Kagan wrote in Policy Review in 2002.

That characterisation of transatlantic difference...

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The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s, not those of EUobserver

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Caroline de Gruyter is a correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC. She is also a columnist for Foreign Policy and De Standaard. This piece is adapted from a recent column in NRC.

While identity politics and sentiment prevail in America, facts and reason tend to dominate policy-making in Europe (Photo: Author)

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Caroline de Gruyter is a correspondent and columnist for the Dutch newspaper NRC. She is also a columnist for Foreign Policy and De Standaard. This piece is adapted from a recent column in NRC.

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