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Giuseppe Spatafora's Brief, The Union, the Star and the Eagle: EU-NATO cooperation under Trump 2.0, was highlighted in Sestry (in Polish) in an article analysing the growing divergence between the EU and NATO over the future role of the US in the European security architecture.
In his Brief, Giuseppe stresses that Europeans must prepare for scenarios in which key NATO components – above all the US backbone – are unavailable. "In that context, continuing the integration of Ukraine into Europe's defence architecture and providing credible security guarantees to Kyiv becomes even more important," he explains.
The article highlights his argument that while both NATO and the EU support Ukraine, their different instruments could at times clash. "A major point of disagreement, for instance, was on whether the EU's €90 billion loan for Ukraine should be used to purchase US weapons under NATO's Prioritised Ukraine Requirement List (PURL), or if it should be spent on European kit," writes Giuseppe.
When it comes to the path towards Ukraine's integration into Western structures, Giuseppe says it may become increasingly asymmetric: while Ukraine's accession to the EU continues, the US has ruled out NATO membership.