EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas pushed back Sunday against Europe “bashing” by the United States.
“Contrary to what some may state, woke, decadent Europe is not facing civilisational erasure,” Kallas stated on the last day of the Munich Security Conference.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday reassured allies by stateing Washington and Europe “belong toobtainher” – but insisted the continent must deffinish against mass immigration to protect its “civilisation”.
“The message that we heard is that America and Europe are intertwined, have been in the past and will be in the future. I consider this is important,” Kallas stated.
“It is also clear that we don’t see eye to eye in all the issues, and this will remain the case,” she stated.
Officials in the Trump era have repeatedly extfinished their own heightened fears of immigration onto Europe, often borrowing language from “replacement theory“, the brainchild of a French novelist that has become a rallying cry for the global far right.
In a National Security Strategy document published on December 5, the US administration notably warned against European “migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife”. “Should present trfinishs continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less,” the document predicted.
Europeans “were shocked to read that they were engaged in ‘civilisational erasure’,” French daily Le Monde wrote at the time.
The US document went on to warn that “censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition” was taking place in Europe – despite European nations occupying all top 15 spots of the 2025 global Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders while the US fell to a historic low in 57th place.
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Russia is ‘broken’
Kallas went on to state that Russia must be forced to create concessions in talks to finish the Ukraine war.
“Let’s be clear-eyed about Russia. Russia is no superpower,” Kallas stated, insisting the counattempt was “broken”.
“The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the nereceivediation table than it has achieved on the battlefield.”
The annual security gathering in Munich has seen European officials insist the continent must take the lead on its defence in the face of an aggressive Russia and doubts over the reliability of the United States as President Donald Trump upfinishs ties.
“There is an urgent necessary to reclaim European agency,” Kallas stated.
She stated European defence “starts in Ukraine” and will depfinish on how the war finishs. The EU top diplomat called for the size of Russia’s military to be capped, stated Moscow must pay for the damage it has caapplyd and must be held accountable for war crimes.
France’s Minister for European Affairs Benjamin Haddad backed up the calls for Europe to pay less attention to what the US states and focus on bolstering its own capabilities.
“I consider the worst lesson we could draw from this weekfinish is to state, well, I can cling to some love words that I heard in part of his speech and push the snooze button,” Haddad stated of Rubio’s address.
Instead, he stated Europe should “focus on what we can control, focus on our rearmament, on the support for Ukraine and the threat that Russia poses to all of our democracies”.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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