{"id":1394208,"date":"2026-05-17T19:12:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/europe-under-pressure-from-the-us-china-and-russia-kallas-outlined-the-main-challenge-for-the-european-union\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T19:12:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:12:32","slug":"europe-under-pressure-from-the-us-china-and-russia-kallas-outlined-the-main-challenge-for-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/europe-under-pressure-from-the-us-china-and-russia-kallas-outlined-the-main-challenge-for-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe under pressure from the US, China and Russia: Kallas outlined the main challenge for the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The European Union&#8217;s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaia Kallas, stated that the United States, China and Russia have a difficult attitude towards the European Union due to its role as a single geopolitical player.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This was reported <a href=\"https:\/\/audiovisual.ec.europa.eu\/en\/media\/video\/I-288833\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by the press service<\/a> of the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p> During her speech, Kallas noted that the world&#8217;s major powers often try to build relationships with individual countries rather than with the European Union as a single bloc. She emphasized that such tactics allow external players to weaken the EU&#8217;s common position.<\/p>\n<p> According to her, an approach is often used in international politics where support for individual states is demonstrated while simultaneously rejecting the European Union itself as a structure.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cExternal players often use an approach where they demonstrate their commitment to a particular state while at the same time expressing their rejection of the European Union itself,\u201d said Kaia Kallas.<\/p>\n<p> Kallas also warned against actions that could undermine the unity of the EU, emphasizing that the fragmented decisions of individual countries weaken the bloc&#8217;s common position on the international stage.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAny attempts to divide European countries play exclusively into the hands of external forces,\u201d said Kaia Kallas.<\/p>\n<p> She emphasized that the key condition for maintaining the EU&#8217;s influence is solidarity and consistency of decisions between member states.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that the administration of US President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of 5,000 American troops from Germany amid escalating disputes between the US and its European allies. <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-polshchi-zaiavyly-pro-rozpad-nato-pislia-rishennia-ssha-pro-vyvedennia-viysk-z-yevropy\/\">Poland and Germany have already stated the risks to NATO and the need to strengthen European defense.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> By the way, former US special envoy to Ukraine Keith <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/kelloh-prypustyv-stvorennia-novoho-viyskovoho-aliansu-z-ukrainoiu-zamist-nato-detali\/\">Kellogg stated the possible need to create alternative military alliances to replace NATO<\/a> . He also suggested the possibility of the US invoking Article 13 of the Alliance to prepare for withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union&#8217;s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaia Kallas, stated that the United States, China and Russia have a difficult attitude towards the European Union due to its role as a single geopolitical player. This was reported by the press service of the European Commission. During her speech, Kallas noted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":659367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1394208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}