(3 Apr 2025)
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Brussels – 3 April 2025
1. NATO foreign ministers and officials arriving for photo
2. German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, and Spanish Foreign Minister, Jose Manuel Albares, talking
3. Various of French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, and Norwegian Foreign Minister, Espen Barth Eide, talking
4. Mid of U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, British Foreign Minister, David Lammy, and Italian Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, talking
5. Close of Rubio
6. Wide of NATO foreign ministers and officials gathering for photo
7. Danish Foreign Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen (left), Estonia’s Foreign Minister, Margus Tsahkna (right), and Croatian Foreign Minister, Gordan Grlic Radman (centre), posing for photo
8. Various of ministers including NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte posing for photo
9. Ministers leaving after photo
10. Rasmussen leaving after photo
STORYLINE:
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration’s new envoy to NATO attended a meeting in Brussels on Thursday with the alliance’s top diplomats.
European allies and Canada are deeply concerned by President Donald Trump’s readiness to draw closer to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who sees NATO as a threat, amid a U.S. effort to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine.
Recent White House comments and insults directed at NATO allies Canada and Denmark — as well as the military alliance itself — have sowed alarm and confusion, especially as new U.S. tariffs took effect on Wednesday against friends and foes alike.
Since Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned last month that U.S. security priorities lie elsewhere — in Asia and on its own borders — the Europeans have waited to learn how big a military drawdown in Europe could be and how fast it may happen.
In Europe and Canada, governments are working on “burden shifting” plans to take over more of the load, while trying to ensure that no security vacuum is created if U.S. troops and equipment are withdrawn from the continent.
These allies are keen to hear from Rubio what the Trump administration’s intentions are and hope to secure some kind of roadmap that lays out what will happen next and when, so they can synchronize planning and use European forces to plug any gaps.
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