“Current challenges to the EU are more dangerous than ever before.”<br /><br /> So says European Council President Donald Tusk, who met leaders of the Baltic states on Tuesday, before a summit that he will chair in Malta to prepare the bloc’s future after Britain leaves,<br /><br /> Tusk identified threats such as China, Russia and radical Islam and highlighted what he called <br />‘worrying declarations’ by US President Donald Trump’s administration.<br /><br /> “For the first time in our history, in an increasingly multi-polar external world, so many are becoming openly anti-European, or Eurosceptic at best,” Tusk said at a news conference in Estonia.<br /><br /> “Particularly the change in Washington puts the European Union in a difficult situation, with the new administration seeming to put into question the last 70 years of American foreign policy.”<br /><br /> Current challenges to EU more dangerous than ever before. Changing geopolitical situation makes our future unpredictable.— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) 31 janvier 2017<br /><br /> Tusk put his thoughts down in a letter to national leaders before Friday’s Malta summit.<br /><br /> His remarks were among the strongest directed at the new US president since Trump took office on January 20 and reflect a growing sense in many European capitals of a need to respond to his policy moves, notably the ban on the entry of refugees and others from seven Muslim-majority countries.<br /><br /> EU’s Tusk calls on Europe to rally against Trump threat https://t.co/wrcH3BJvDC pic.twitter.com/nNE51UKr4t— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) 31 janvier 2017<br /><br /> Leaders in Brussels have been particularly concerned that Trump has supported Brexit and spoken of other countries following Britain out of the bloc.<br /><br /> Tuesday’s meeting in Tallinn saw leaders sign up to a high-speed railway project to integrate the Baltic States to the European rail network, helped by EU funds.<br /><br /> In President Obama’s final days in the White House, a massive US military reinforcement arrived in Poland, aimed at showing Moscow Washington’s commitment to its allies.<br /><br /> Under Donald Trump, it is feared that commitment is no longer guaranteed.<br /><br /> with Reuters<br />
