Trump's Style Could Force Split Between the U.S. and Europe

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"The times in which we could completely depend on others, are, to a certain extent, over," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday.

She went on to say that Europe must "take its fate into its own hands," implying that Germany can no longer rely on the U.S. and the U.K. as allies. She made these comments following the NATO and G-7 meetings last week, where President Donald Trump cast doubt on whether the U.S. would continue to uphold the mutual defense pledge or the Paris Climate Accord.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer painted a very different picture of America's relationship with Europe following the president's trip on Tuesday, saying that Trump's relationship with Merkel is "fairly unbelievable." 

But after the French elections and the bold rhetoric from leaders like Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, has a split emerged between the U.S. and Europe? And what does that mean for the future of both the European Union, and the U.S. relationship with the continent? 

Constanze Stelzenmüller, Robert Bosch senior fellow with the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, discusses the view from Germany, and with the French perspective is Mabel Berezin, a sociology professor at Cornell University and author of "Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture, Security and Populism in the New Europe."