Europe cannot accept a “threat of interference” in its political life – António Costa

The President of the European Council, António Costa, stated today that Europe cannot accept a “threat of interference” in its political life, after the release of the new US security strategy, which criticizes Europeans.
“What we cannot accept is this threat of interference in the political life of Europe,” declared António Costa, in a speech at the Jacques Delors Institute, stressing that “the United States cannot replace European citizens in choosing which are the good parties and the bad parties.”
The US Administration, led by President Donald Trump, released on Friday a document that redefines its “National Security Strategy.”
According to the France-Presse agency, the much-anticipated document formalizes the offensive launched by Washington against the European continent months ago.
Among other targets of the US Administration are the European institutions, which it claims undermine “political freedom and sovereignty,” migration policies, the “censorship of freedom of expression and the repression of political opposition, the collapse of birth rates and the loss of national identities and self-confidence” in Europe.
“We have differences in our worldviews, but this goes beyond that. This strategy continues to speak of Europe as an ally, but if we are allies, we must act as allies” and respect each other’s sovereignty, argued António Costa.
For the President of the European Council, “the United States remains an important ally, the United States remains an important economic partner.”
“But our Europe must be sovereign,” he concluded.
In the “National Security Strategy,” there is a warning about the danger of the “civilizational extinction” of Europe if the “current trends” continue.
“If current trends continue, the [European] continent will become unrecognizable within 20 years or less,” reads the 33-page document, analyzed by the French news agency AFP, which advocates the “restoration of the supremacy” of the US in Latin America.
Trump, in the preface, sums it up: “We put America first in everything we do.”
“It is more than plausible that, in a few decades at most, the members of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) will become predominantly non-European,” he wrote, adding that “it is legitimate to question whether they will understand their place in the world or their alliance with the US in the same way as those who signed the organization’s charter.”
Washington expresses the desire that “Europe remain European, regain its civilizational self-confidence and abandon its fruitless obsession with regulatory stranglehold.”
In the text, it is also argued that “the era of mass migration has to end” and that “border security is the main element of [US] national security.”
Among other aspects, the US strategy announces an adjustment of its military presence in the world “to respond to emerging threats” on that continent and a “withdrawal from ‘theaters’ [of operations] whose relative importance for American national security has diminished in recent years or decades.”