The weekend’s acrimonious Group of Seven summit felt like a watershed moment for trans-Atlantic relations for some senior European officials in attendance. It amplified their already rampant anxieties that Washington is in the throes of repudiating the global economic order that it created and has led since World War II.
The developments are likely to accelerate a reassessment by European governments of how to manage relations with the Trump administration in the knowledge that every approach tried so far has failed, including...