European Investment Bank President Nadia Calviño called on the EU to stay united after a week of unprecedented criticism from the Trump administration which suggested the 27-member bloc is in decline and must reverse course to avoid a "civilisational demise".
"I have never been prouder to be European," she told Euronews' flagship morning show Europe Today when asked about a controversial US government security strategy which described Europe as economically in decline, drowning under illegal migration and suffocating as a result of overregulation.