Berlin is promising a “common position” with Paris to deal with Trump, but the EU’s most important relationship is mired in problems.

French diplomats are worried by Berlin’s increasing assertiveness in styling itself as Europe’s dominant player, while the Germans are fed up with the French over a stalled joint fighter-jet program, their opposition to an EU-Mercosur trade deal, and a shelved plan to use Russian assets to finance aid for Ukraine.

The French made their traditional proposal that the money should be used to buy European weapons — which in turn would support French industry. The Germans hit back that preferential treatment should instead be given to companies from countries that had made the biggest contributions to Ukraine — thereby helping German industry.

Nobody could have seen this coming. shocked-pikachu

As has been said before, if there’s no more NATO, the EU will begin to fracture soon afterwards as old European rivalries re-emerge and they’ll go back to fighting each other.