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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Sam Jones in Madrid

EU leaders look to little-known mutual assistance pact amid Trump Nato jibes

Donald Trump pictured in front of US and Nato flags.
Trump, a long-term critic of the transatlantic military alliance, has stepped up his invective at ‘very disappointing Nato’. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Brussels officials will draw up a plan on how to use the EU’s little-known mutual assistance pact in the event of a foreign attack, as Donald Trump’s criticism of Nato intensifies.

EU leaders have agreed that the European Commission “will prepare a blueprint” on how the bloc will respond if the mutual assistance clause is triggered, according to Nikos Christodoulides, the president of Cyprus, who is hosting the talks.

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