Europe - USA: Shared values and political reality

Europe and the United States of America are repeatedly portrayed as a community of values. This is associated with the demand that Europeans should align their foreign policy with that of the USA, as if a community of values were also a community of interests. This paper will therefore begin by showing how America's political institutions emerged from the spirit of the European Enlightenment. Then, however, it is also a question of the extent to which the fundamental values have developed in unison or differently. At the same time, it is about the constellations of interests that have emerged as a result of political realities.