Bad to worse? Europe’s relief over US midterms tempered by prospect of Trump backlash

Follow the SCMP’s live coverage here After almost two years in which the transatlantic alliance verged on collapse, a Democratic landslide in the US midterm elections was welcomed in Europe on Wednesday, even if few believed it would be a panacea for ailing ties.

The Democratic Party swept both chambers of the US Congress in a crushing rebuke of US President Donald Trump’s two-year record.

For Europe, that period has led to a shattering of the post-war order and deep schisms in the Western...