The Council statement also highlights the need to resume joint reform efforts of international organizations such as WHO and WTO
The EU and the USA, under Joseph Biden’s presidency, should increase their joint defence and security efforts, including through increased EU-NATO cooperation. This was stated in a statement of the EU Council on Relations with the new US Administration, which was distributed on Monday in Brussels, where the Foreign Ministers of the Community countries are meeting.
“The European Union and the United States should continue to maintain close cooperation and dialogue in the area of defence and security and continue to increase joint efforts, including through the strengthened NATO-EU strategic partnership on both sides in the area of common interests, as set out in joint declarations at the [NATO] summits in Warsaw in 2016 and Brussels in 2018”, – the document said.
The document also says that the European Union and the United States, under Joseph Biden’s presidency, will have to apply restrictive measures in a more effective and coordinated manner. “The EU and the US should strive to achieve more effective and coordinated implementation of restrictive measures, as well as to address the issue of extraterritorial measures,” it says.
“Together with the US, we must strengthen our strategic sustainability, energy security, confront hybrid threats, including misinformation, counter economic pressures and attacks on critical infrastructure (including by protecting our strategic enterprises from foreign control), strengthen our efforts to combat unfair trade practices, and maintain our technological superiority”, – the document says. The EU also proposes to involve “other democracies that think like us” in this cooperation.