70% of Europeans want the EU to respond to US tariffs with countermeasures. 44% have already reduced or stopped buying US products. 51% think that strengthening trade relations with Japan and South Korea should be the top priority for the EU. 37% believe China should be. 80% want the EU to invest in its own technology to reduce strategic dependencies. 72% support Denmark and Greenland, even at the cost of making economic sacrifices. These are some of the findings of a survey conducted by Euroconsumers, a European consumer protection organisation, based on interviews with nearly 10,000 people in ten European countries (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain). The far-ranging results of the survey are thoroughly described in a publication, “Consumers as geopolitical actors: what Europeans expect from the EU in a disruptive world”. Four are the micro-areas it deals with: relations with Trump’s America, trade, the European single market, the EU in the global context. The underlying goal is to give a voice to consumers at such a delicate and complicated time, since “too often, geopolitical debates focus on governments, institutions or businesses, while overlooking one of Europe’s greatest assets: its 450 million consumers”.