NATO, Draghi: “Summit to reaffirm alliance with the USA”

The NATO summit in Brussels today “is a continuation of yesterday’s G7”. “It is part of the process of reaffirming and rebuilding the fundamental US alliances, which had been, as it were, weakened by the previous administration.” Prime Minister Mario Draghi underlines this, arriving at the headquarters of the Atlantic Alliance in Evere, on the northern outskirts of the Belgian capital, for the summit. “Think – notes Draghi – that President Joe Biden’s first visit is to Europe and try to remember where President Trump’s first visit was”. Donald Trump’s first visit as president was to Saudi Arabia, in May 2017, the first stop on a tour that took him, among other things, to Rome and then to Brussels where, in addition to a NATO summit, he also participated in the last summit US-EU before what will be held tomorrow (in 2018 there was a NATO summit, but no summit with the EU). “We are here – he continues – for the reaffirmation of these alliances, but also for the reaffirmation of the importance of the European Union in all of this: a stronger EU means a stronger NATO”, concludes Draghi. of the North Atlantic, which establishes the commitment to mutual defense between NATO allies, underlines US President Biden, “we consider it a sacred obligation”. “I constantly remind Americans that, when America was attacked, NATO intervened. I just want all of Europe to know that the United States is there,” says Biden before having a bilateral meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens. Stoltenberg, during the summit of the Atlantic Alliance in Brussels.