"The document was widely condemned in Europe as representing a seismic shift in the 70-year transatlantic alliance with its dark references to a purported threat of civilisational erasure with migration and censorship creating strife, cratering birthrates and loss of national identities. Its threat to interfere in European politics and oppose what it termed as elite-driven, anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe was condemned as unacceptable by the president of the European Council of leaders, Antonio Costa."
"What I'd like to highlight is that that language is a warning. It's not an insult because there is a growing sense of concern and alarm in the United States about the fact that Europe's economic, relative economic decline as a share of the global GDP is a crisis. There is a degree of alarm in Washington about the need for serious reforms in order to jolt the European economy back to life."
"The changes the US was seeking, Helberg said, centred on the opportunity to drastically simplify and reduce the regulatory burden in Europe, which he claimed would free up talent and capital on the European continent and attract US investment. The US has repeatedly threatened not to lift 50% steel tariffs on the EU if the bloc does not roll back on tech legislation hitting its billionaires including Elon Musk."
The US national security strategy framed Europe's economic and social trends as cause for alarm, citing migration, censorship, falling birthrates and loss of national identities. European leaders condemned the language as a seismic shift and unacceptable interference in European politics. A US under secretary of state described the language as a warning about Europe’s relative economic decline and urged serious reforms to jolt the European economy back to life. The US called for drastic simplification and reduction of regulatory burdens to free talent and capital and attract US investment, and threatened to keep 50% steel tariffs if Europe does not roll back certain tech legislation.
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