Forecast: One should expect serious transformations in Transatlantic  ties and inside European Union   

ArmInfo. One should expect serious transformations in the Transatlantic ties and inside the European Union, according to Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Politics Magazine, Chairman of the Russian Council for Foreign and Defense Policy.  

"The European model of integration and the Transatlantic ties have been exhausted today and I do not think Donald Trump's presidency in the US will facilitate the development of relations with the EU," Lukyanov says, adding that before Trump came to power Brussels had relied on Washington in settlement of the domestic problems of Europe, however, it has unexpectedly turned out that the US is not going to do that.      

At the same time, the analyst thinks the prospects of the US-UK  rapprochement on a new basis are quite an important factor, given the  inevitability of the UK's withdrawal from the EU. He thinks London's  return to the Anglo-Saxon tandem to look for its new place in  international politics is much more likely today than it was a couple  of years ago.     

In the light of the latest European trends, Lukyanov expects the  forces striving for restoration of relations with Russia to  strengthen in Europe. This may happen by late 2017 when the political  situation in Europe becomes clearer after the elections in Germany.     

"Merkel will have to respond somehow to the growth of the influence  of other forces, which inspires hope for changes in the Russian  vector of the foreign policy of Berlin and Brussels. For now, Europe  is trying to change nothing at all. It is simply afraid of changes in  the light of the US foreign policy vectors," Lukyanov says.