"In reply to these three matters, I heard today from vice president Pence three times ‘yes.’ After such a positive declaration, both Europeans and Americans must simply practice what they preach," Tusk told reporters.
The European Union counts on US support for the idea of a united Europe, European Council President Donald Tusk said Monday.
"We are counting, as always in the past, on the United States’ wholehearted and unequivocal, let me repeat, unequivocal support for the idea of a united Europe. The world would be a decidedly worse place if Europe were not united," Tusk told reporters.
Transatlantic cooperation could be improved, but NATO is not obsolete, European Council President Donald Tusk said Monday.
Earlier in the day Tusk met with US Vice President Mike Pence.
"Our security is based on NATO and on closest-possible transatlantic cooperation. We must work together to modernize the forms of this cooperation, some of them should indeed be improved. But we should also I believe agree on one thing – the idea of NATO is not obsolete," Tusk told reporters
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