Hard to see EU muster a response against a United States which is prepared to wield its overwhelming dominance of financial, economic, technological and cultural systems to its own perceived advantage.

Europe needed a de Gaulle but the political class of the EU is dominated by a generation of leaders who have been indoctrinated into the global liberalist values which the US has itself now abandoned. Generational turnover needed, but that will be enough time for the US to permanently lock its advantage. It might have already done so.