Event Details
📢 Main Speaker: Henry Olsen
🌟 Special Guest: Derk Jan Eppink
📅 Date: March 26, 2025
⏰ Time: 16:00 – 19:00 CET
📍 Location: The Arlon 80, Brussels
Are Europe and the US Headed for Divorce?
Continental Europe and the United States have been the closest of allies for eighty years. Now, U.S. President Donald Trump’s seeming withdrawal of support for Ukraine, threats to impose tariffs on EU exports, and pulling out of the Paris Accords have thrown the relationship on the rocks. Can it be reformed, or are the allies headed for an acrimonious breakup?
📢 Main Speaker: Henry Olsen
is a columnist at Brussels Signal and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, where he provides commentary on American politics. His work focuses on how America’s political order is being upended by populist challenges, from the left and the right. He also studies populism’s impact in other democracies in the developed world. From 2019–2023, Mr. Olsen was an opinion columnist for The Washington Post, where he wrote daily pieces focusing on politics, populism, foreign affairs and American conservative thought. He is also the author of The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism and The Four Faces of the Republican Party, co-authored with Dante Scala. Mr. Olsen’s work has been featured in many prominent publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Guardian, and The Weekly Standard. His predictions of the 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018 elections were particularly praised for their remarkable accuracy. In the 2016 campaign, he accurately identified the factors fueling the rise of Donald Trump early in the race, and his election-eve predictions were among the most accurate of any major analyst or commentator.
🌟 Special Guest: Derk Jan Eppink
is a columnist, author and former member of European Parliament and Dutch Parliament. He also worked in the cabinet of Commissioners Bolkestein and Kallas. Eppink started as a journalist, covering political affairs. First in The Netherlands, thereafter in Belgium. He worked as a columnist in the US (New York) covering presidential elections of 2008 and 2016. Eppink published various books, like ‘Life of a European Mandarin’, ‘Empire of little Kings, Belgian Adventures, EU Bonfire of Bureaucracy and Triumph of Trump.
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