The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, claimed to the Financial Times (FT) on Friday the administration of President Donald Trump “wants to divide Europe” and called upon unity among E.U. members to withstand what she described as the president’s “hostile tactics.” “What I think is actually important for everybody to understand is that the U.S. has been very clear that they want to divide Europe. They don’t like the European Union,” Kallas told the FT, asserting that the United States’ approach to the bloc echoed tactics used by “our adversaries.”
President Trump and his administration have repeatedly expressed criticism of the European Union’s highly questionable policies. In November, the White House published its new National Security Strategy, in which President Trump warned that Europe faces imminent “civilizational erasure” due to the E.U.’s unrestricted mass migration policies that far eclipse the bloc’s economic woes, erosion of free speech, and other pressing issues. “This is a very complicated relationship that we are having,” Kallas told the outlet. “If you read the national security strategy and national defense strategy, I think there shouldn’t be any illusions.” Kallas detailed the E.U.’s 27 members were “at odds” as to how to handle the group’s relationship with the United States.
