US EditionTop EU official warns the US against interfering in Europe’s affairs
António Costa condemned the U.S. National Security Strategy for endorsing far-right parties and threatening European sovereignty, urging Europe to assert its own political choices.
- On Monday, European Council President António Costa condemned the National Security Strategy published last week, saying `What we cannot accept is the threat to interfere in European politics.`
- The National Security Strategy said the US would be "cultivating resistance to Europe's current trajectory within European nations" and criticised European free-speech and migration policies, warning of 'civilisational erasure' risks.
- Costa told a conference in Brussels and Paris, `The United States cannot replace European citizens in choosing which parties are good and which are bad` and warned that freedom of speech depends on freedom of information.
- Moscow publicly welcomed the document, while the European Commission's Friday fine on X fuelled US criticism, intensifying transatlantic tensions.
- Costa added that Europe must be sovereign and strong at home, stressing, `If you want to be strong on the international stage, you have to be strong at home`, and warned the Ukraine strategy undermines Europe's peace goals.
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Antonio Costa says Europe cannot accept US 'threat to interfere'
European Council president Antonio Costa on Monday rejected any attempt by the United States to meddle in Europe's politics, after Washington published a new security strategy sharply criticising the continent's policies. "What we cannot accept is the threat to interfere in European politics," Costa told a conference in Brussels.
The President of the European Council, António Costa, warned Washington this Monday that the allies do not threaten each other to interfere in the democratic life of others, while calling on the European Union to assume that the alliances "are no longer the same" as they used to be and to defend Europe's strength. "We cannot accept a threat of interference in Europe's political life. The United States cannot replace Europeans when deciding which…
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The President of the European Council, António Costa , has rejected what he considers to be "political interferences" on the part of the United States, as reflected in the controversial document published by the US government . He warns of "the era of civilization" as a result of the internal policies of Europeans and calls for a change of course following the "European patriot parties" that resist Brussels policies. Costa participated this Mond…
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