BRUSSELS: European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday that the United States remains Europe’s biggest ally, after the Trump administration said in a major strategy document that Europe faces “civilizational erasure” and may one day lose its status as a reliable ally. The new US National Security Strategy, posted on the White House website overnight Thursday-to-Friday, denounced the European Union as anti-democratic and Europe as lacking in self-confidence, and said the goal of the US should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory.”
“There’s a lot of criticism, but I think some of it is also true, if you look at Europe, it has been underestimating its own power toward Russia,” Kallas said on a panel at the Doha Forum in Qatar.
“We should be more self-confident,” she said, adding that the “US is still our biggest ally.”
“I think we haven’t always seen eye to eye on different topics, but I think the overall principle is still there. We are the biggest allies and we should stick together,” Kallas said.
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US remains biggest ally and Europe should be more self-confident, Kallas says
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US remains biggest ally and Europe should be more self-confident, Kallas says
Avalanche in the highest Slovak mountain range kills 2 Hungarian climbers
- The victims were located under the avalanche by witnesses
BRATISLAVA: An avalanche in Slovakia’s High Tatras mountain range killed two Hungarians, the country’s mountain rescue service said Friday.
It said the two were male climbers age 38 and 37.
The service said bad weather prevented them from using a helicopter and they had to reach a valley under the Tupa peak, where the avalanche took place, on foot.
The victims were located under the avalanche by witnesses but they did not survive.
On Friday, there was only a slight danger of avalanches in Slovakia’s highest mountain range.
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