US Allies Look to Europe to Build a Post-Trump Global Order

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives at the European Political Community meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, on May 4.Photographer: Anthony Pizzoferrato/AP Photo

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By Andrea Palasciano, Ania Nussbaum, and Ani Avetisyan

May 4, 2026 at 1:28 PM UTC

Some of the US’s closest allies including Canada and the UK are warning that the international system of security and trade championed by western powers for more than 70 years is broken beyond repair — and that it’s up to Europe to fashion a new global order.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who earlier this year warned that the rules-based order was dead, implored dozens of leaders meeting in Armenia on Monday not to submit to a more “transactional, insular and brutal world.”