Kaja Kallas brushes off Trump's criticism of EU in interview with Euronews

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Kaja Kallas brushes off Trump's criticism of EU in interview with Euronews  The EU’s foreign policy downplayed a controversial US security review suggesting there is “civilisation erasure” in Europe. Kallas called for unity.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/12/06/kajas-kallas-brushes-off-trumps-criticism-of-eu-in-interview-with-euronews  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Yesterday, the Trump administration mentioned their national security advisory.

00:05They mentioned Europe in decline, and they also vowed to cultivate resistance to Europe's current trajectory.

00:12What do you say to this?

00:14Well, let's focus on the things that we can do together.

00:18I mean, what we can take from that security strategy is that we are still, you know, allies with America.

00:26We don't always see eye to eye on everything, but it's our internal matters.

00:31We can handle ourselves.

00:32Let's focus on the global challenges that we actually have,

00:35which are, you know, economic cursive practices from China that we are both, you know, faced with,

00:41which is the threat that comes from malign actors like Russia, like China, like Iran.

00:48So we definitely need to focus on what we can do together and, you know, domestic issues.

00:55Let us let them be our domestic issues.

00:58Did that come as a surprise, though, to hear that tone?

01:01Well, we have heard that before, so this is clear.

01:07And this is the way the current administration sees the things evolving.

01:14I think it's important that we stay on the course and we have our own strategies in place and we need to follow them.

01:23And if you could just speak on the Qatar EU launch negotiations, the strategic partnership.

01:27Tell us more about this and the objectives.

01:29We see Qatar's growing role in the Middle East as well.

01:34I mean, all the international mediation that they're doing when it comes to Sudan, but also Gaza,

01:43also Ukrainian children, for example, or the Great Lakes.

01:47So we see that we have a lot of things where we can work together, of course, not only on peace and security matters,

01:55but also other matters like trade, economic relations, innovation, technology that we can build up.

02:03Just building on that last question is that Qatar's often involved in the hostage negotiations, hostage releases.

02:08How do you see the role with the EU playing out as well, continuing?

02:13Well, as I've said, I really commend Qatar's role in this.

02:20I mean, it is clear in this world where we have more wars than ever before, like 60 wars and conflicts going around in the world,

02:30we need all the mediation we can get, and definitely we have different strengths when it comes to Qatar

02:37or when it comes to the European Union, and we can work together.

02:41What we are good at is building the sustainable peace, because it's not only the peace treaty,

02:47but it's actually how to come so that it's also the whole of society approach that actually the society owns this.

02:55We want to move from the atrocities that both committed to the place where this never happens again.

03:02So forgetting about the understanding of different pasts and focusing on a common future.

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