The president of the European Council of the European Union said in a statement following a pivotal meeting Tuesday with the Baltic Council in Tallinn that the future looks “ highly unpredictable” – in part, due to “worrying declarations by the new American administration.”
Together with prime ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Tusk had just finished discussing migration via the Central Mediterranean and Libya, and the future of the European Union.
“The challenges currently facing the European Union are more dangerous than ever before in the time since the signature of the Treaty of Rome 60 years ago,” President Donald Tusk told reporters.
“Today we are dealing with threats, which have previously not occurred, at least not on such a scale.
“An increasingly assertive China, especially on the seas, Russia’s aggressive policy towards Ukraine and its neighbors, wars, terror and anarchy in the Middle East and in Africa, with radical Islam playing a destructive role, as well as worrying declarations by the new American administration all make our future highly unpredictable.”
