Europe must take urgent measures to improve its defense capabilities and to make NATO “more European”, so that the alliance can maintain its power, warned the head of EU diplomacy, according to BBC. Kaja Kallas said that the US-Europe relationship has undergone “tectonic changes”, and the Trump Administration has shaken the transatlantic relationship to its foundations. However, she said, the US will continue to be Europe’s partner and ally.
At the annual conference of the European Defense Agency, Kaja Kallas said that the European Union continues to support relations with the United States, which remains an ally, but Europe must take into account the new realities. No great power has “outsourced its survival and survived”, she said.
“NATO must become more European in order to maintain its power,” said Kaja Kallas.
Kaja Kallas said that, under the Trump administration, Europe “no longer represents the main center of gravity for Washington”, and the continent must change its political culture, abandoning strictly national thinking and orienting towards collective action, as Europeans.
“The risk of a complete return to coercive power politics, to spheres of influence, and to a world where power makes right is very real,” she added.
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