The foreign affairs chief has rejected the US president’s critique of the bloc’s cultural and political trajectory, insisting “Europe is free”
The criticisms of the European Union laid out in the new US National Security Strategy (NSS) are “not true,” EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas has insisted. Addressing a European Parliament committee on Tuesday, she suggested that US President Donald Trump’s statements about the bloc were meant to evoke a reaction and sow division.
The 33-page NSS document, released by the White House on Friday, warns that Europe is facing “civilizational erasure” due to its current political and cultural direction. It accuses the EU of lacking “self-confidence” and criticizes its institutions for their excessive regulation, fostering of instability through migration policy, and suppression of the political opposition.
Kallas has rejected the accusations, insisting “the European Union is the very essence of freedom” and suggesting that American criticisms are “made to be a provocation so that we would react.”
“We need to be more self-confident,” Kallas said, claiming that all the allegations made in the NSS “are not true” and that the problems highlighted by Washington are “no worse in Europe than in America.”
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