US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's speech at the Munich Security Conference was not an "olive branch" to Europeans and transmitted a sense of "calm before the next tempest" in the trans-Atlantic relationship, Fabrice Pothier, the CEO of Rasmussen Global a think-tank based in Brussels, has told Euronews' flagship morning show Europe Today.
Pothier, a former Director of Policy Planning for NATO, said Rubio's change in tone "is just a way to make the past few months a bit less painful," but that Europeans are "not naive".
