EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas sharply criticized the Trump administration’s approach to Europe, claiming that Washington is deliberately seeking to divide European unity.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Kallas stated bluntly: “The United States has made it very clear that it wants to divide Europe. They don’t like the European Union.” According to her, the American side is employing tactics typically employed by the EU’s opponents—seeking to engage with individual member states instead of working with the EU institutions as a whole.
“When countries act alone, they are much weaker. That’s why it’s important for Europe to respond with a united front,” the head of European diplomacy emphasized.
Kallas’s statement comes amid a year-long deterioration in transatlantic relations. The Trump administration has repeatedly imposed tariffs on EU goods, threatened trade restrictions, and taken steps that Brussels views as attempts to weaken a unified European position on key issues—from trade and defense to support for Ukraine and relations with China.
Kallas called on EU countries to maintain unity and resist bilateral proposals from Washington, which, in her view, undermine the EU’s collective strength.