Europe will not submit to a more “brutal world”, and can instead be the base from which a new international order can be rebuilt, Mark Carney , the Canadian prime minister, has said. Carney was speaking as the first non-European leader to attend a meeting of the European Political Community , which opened on Monday amid high tensions in the strait of Hormuz and renewed doubts about the US commitment to Nato. “We don’t think that we’re destined to submit to a more transactional, insular and brutal world, and gatherings such as these point to a better way forward,” he said. In a pointed suggestion that the era of American leadership was coming to an end, and explaining the symbolism of Canada’s attendance at a European political gathering, he said: “It is my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt out of Europe .…