Security Conference: US Secretary of State emphasizes shut ties to Europe | EUROtoday

Before his departure for the Munich Security Conference, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasised an in depth connection between the US and Europe. He advised journalists: “Europe is important to us.” We are deeply related to Europe and “our future has always been interconnected and will continue to be so.”

At the identical time, Rubio added: “That’s why we have to talk about what this future will look like.” The US Secretary of State additionally mentioned: The previous world now not exists. We reside in a brand new period of geopolitics.

Last yr, US Vice President JD Vance made an unusually sharp assault on the European allies in his speech in Munich and complained in regards to the state of democracy in Europe. He made an oblique reference to the German debate on the time about demarcation from the AfD and warned of “firewalls” in Europe. The speech induced nice outrage amongst Europeans.

What the USA calls for from Europe

At the start of December, the USA revealed its nationwide safety technique, which was seen as a break by the US authorities with the custom of shut transatlantic cooperation. Previous methods didn’t consider core U.S. nationwide pursuits and prioritized the protection of different nations on the expense of the U.S. inhabitants, the doc mentioned. Now “America First” applies. The present political panorama within the EU was branded within the doc as a risk to American pursuits.

In the nationwide protection technique revealed afterwards, which was considerably extra goal in tone, the US authorities emphasised that the USA needed to proceed to play a central position inside NATO – even when it readjusted its presence in Europe. Allies ought to take the lead in Europe towards threats which are extra severe to them than to the United States – “with crucial but limited support from the United States,” the doc says. In the previous there have been repeated discussions about lowering the variety of troops in Europe.