US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to reassure a nervous Europe on Saturday, saying Washington wanted to recharge the transatlantic alliance so a strong Europe could help the United States on its mission of global “renewal.”
Speaking at a security conference in Munich after months of turmoil in US-European relations sparked by President Donald Trump‘s vows to seize Greenland and his often derisive remarks about allies, Washington‘s top diplomat struck a markedly soothing tone.
“We do not seek to separate, but to revitalize an old friendship and renew the greatest civilization in human history,” Rubio said, calling for “a reinvigorated alliance.”
“We want Europe to be strong,” Rubio said, adding that the continent and the United States “belong together.”
He said Europe and the United States were “heirs to the same great and noble civilization” and that he hoped Europe “together with us are willing and able to defend it”. (AFP)
