The last two weeks have been immensely enlightening. For Europeans, they have perhaps been, above all, promising. Thanks for this must go to the president of the United States because, during his brief visit to the old continent, there was “Ascension Day, but Donald Trump did not ascend very high in the esteem of Europe”. This scything comment by Professor Sven Biscop of the University of Ghent in the article “Trump First” which he published on the website of the august Egmont...