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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

European Council president warns US not to interfere in Europe’s affairs

Donald Trump with the European Commission  president, Ursula von der Leyen (third left), Emmanuel Macron (second left), and Giorgia Meloni (front) as well as Nato’s Mark Rutte and Ukraine’s Volodymr Zelenskyy.
Donald Trump with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen (third left), Emmanuel Macron (second left) and Giorgia Meloni (front), as well as Nato’s Mark Rutte and Ukraine’s Volodymr Zelenskyy. Photograph: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/AFP/Getty Images

The president of the European Council of national leaders, António Costa, has warned Donald Trump’s administration against interfering in Europe’s affairs, as analysts said the US national security strategy represented a seismic shift in transatlantic relations.

Released on Friday, the policy paper claims Europe faces “civilisational erasure” because of migration and a censorious EU “undermining political liberty and sovereignty”. Confirming not just the Trump administration’s hostility to Europe but its ambition to weaken the bloc, it says the US will “cultivate resistance” in the bloc to “correct its current trajectory”.

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