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Tue Jul 10, 2018, 08:24 AM Jul 2018

'America: appreciate your allies. After all you don't have that many'- EU Council Pres. Donald Tusk

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U.S. President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday that European leaders can expect a reckoning when he sees them this week in Brussels at the NATO summit and was met with an immediate brush-back from European Council President Donald Tusk.

Tusk said at a signing of a joint declaration between the Brussels-based security alliance and the body of EU nations that Trump should be more careful with his taunts.

'America does not have and will not have a better ally than Europe. Today Europeans spend on defense many times more than Russia and as much as China,' he said in remarks that were directed at the U.S. president. 'And I think you can have no doubt, Mr. President, that this is an investment in common American and European defense and security.'

Then, in the toughest challenge yet to Trump, he said: 'America: appreciate your allies. After all you don’t have that many.'



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5937569/Trump-gripes-U-S-spending-times-country-protect-Europe.html

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