Rubio urges Europeans to join Trump’s fight

Agencies :

Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to assuage European leaders’ worries Saturday about fraying ties with the United States while attempting to rally them behind US President Donald Trump’s ambitions.

“The fate of Europe will never be irrelevant to our own,” he told the Munich Security Conference, adding that “ultimately our destiny is, and will always be, intertwined with yours”.

The top US diplomat’s speech was a striking contrast to the inflammatory words delivered from the same stage by Vice President JD Vance a year earlier, when he took aim at Europe for its immigration policy and accused it of curbing free speech.