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Posted on February 14, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 26, 2026
EU's Kaja Kallas expressed concern over US VP JD Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference, suggesting it felt confrontational. Kallas emphasized the need to focus on Russia's aggression towards Ukraine.
MUNICH (Reuters) - The European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday that a speech by U.S. Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security conference felt as if the United States was 'trying to pick a fight' with Europe.
"Listening to that speech, they try to pick a fight with us and we don't want to a pick a fight with our friends," Kallas said at the Munich event.
Kallas added that allies should be focusing on bigger threats like Russia's aggression on Ukraine.
(Reporting by John Irish; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)
The main topic is the perceived tensions between the EU and US following a speech by US VP JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference.
Kaja Kallas said the speech felt like the US was trying to pick a fight with Europe, urging focus on bigger threats like Russia.
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