The 2024 US presidential election is expected to be the most consequential in recent history for the European Union. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has promised to reduce America's military support to Ukraine and to raise tariffs on virtually all foreign imports to the US. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, is expected to be more committed to a multilateral, rule-based international order. However, even a Democratic administration is likely to be more isolationist and protectionist than in recent years.
Two days after the November 5 elections, we will unpack the consequences from a European perspective. As is the tradition of IEP@BU, our focus will be on how European policymakers should and could react to the US election outcome.
SPEAKERS
Franco Bruni Professor emeritus at Bocconi University, and president of ISPI, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale
Gianluca Passarelli Full Professor of Political Science at Sapienza University of Rome, author of Stati Uniti d'Europa (Egea)
Graziella Romeo Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at Bocconi University
Majda Ruge Senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations
Thomas J. Schoenbaum Harold S. Shefelman Professor of Law at the University of Washington in Seattle
MODERATOR
Stefano Feltri Communication advisor at the IEP@BU
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