US remains biggest ally and Europe should be more self-confident, says EU Vice President Kaja Kallas

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday that the United States remains Europe’s biggest ally, after the Trump administration said in a major strategy document that Europe faces “civilisational erasure” and may one day lose its status as a reliable ally.

The new US National Security Strategy, posted on the White House website overnight Thursday-to-Friday, denounced the European Union as anti-democratic and Europe as lacking in self-confidence, and said the goal of the US should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory”.

“There’s a lot of criticism, but I think some of it is also true, if you look at Europe, it has been underestimating its own power towards Russia,” Kallas said on a panel at the Doha Forum in Qatar.