EU Rebukes New U.S. Security Strategy That Limits Concern to Direct American Interests

Overview

• The White House document states that other countries' affairs are irrelevant unless their actions directly threaten U.S. interests.
• Major European outlets call the shift a break with the post‑1945 order and say it casts Europe as a target, while analysts warn it could bolster radical‑right forces inside the EU.
• European Council chair António Costa cautions that the U.S. approach amounts to interference in EU democracies.
• EU leaders reject U.S. critiques of European press‑freedom and digital‑rule frameworks and urge collective strengthening in response.
• The strategy is expected to dominate talks in London today among Germany’s Friedrich Merz, France’s Emmanuel Macron, the U.K.’s Keir Starmer and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky.