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Growing his financial demands, attacking Berlin on his energy dependence on Moscow, the US president put the meeting of the Alliance under tension.
This is a fact that has not been commented on. Ten days before the opening of the NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday, 11 July, White House adviser Rich Hooker stepped down. Dispute of substance or form with US President Donald Trump? Anyway, this close to the teams of General H. McMaster, ephemeral national security adviser thanked in March, was the man who had prepared the meeting of the twenty-nine heads of government of the Atlantic Alliance. And it was not going away under the best auspices.
Totally dominated by the reproaches of President Trump, who accuses his European and Canadian allies of being defaulters in defense as well as unfair commercial competitors, the twenty-sixth summit NATO began with a heavy atmosphere.
The day before, very strong words were heard. On the occasion of the signing of a 74-point European Union (EU) -OTAN agreement, the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, addressed the American leader directly to reject his "almost daily" criticism and "unpleasant", inviting "better consider" his allies, all the more, he added, he "did not not that much ".
million. Tusk recalled the collective solidarity that played with America after September 11, 2001. At the time, NATO had for the first time since 1949 triggered Article 5 of its Treaty, which states that in the event attack on an ally, all are concerned.
Open day at the gun
When he landed in Brussels on Tuesday at 9 pm, the American president was greeted by … the head of protocol of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. No prime minister, no member of the government, let alone representative of the royal family. Wednesday morning at breakfast, sitting to the left of her NATO ambbadador, Kay Bailey, who had …
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