European Officials Criticize Trump's NATO Comments

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "We cannot flip a coin about our security every four years depending on this or that election, namely the U.S. presidential election," Breton said, adding European Union leaders understood the bloc needed to boost its own military spending and capacities.
45% : EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton was asked in an LCI television interview about the remarks on Saturday by Trump, who is likely to be the Republican nominee in this year's U.S. presidential election.
38% : Trump, speaking during a political rally in South Carolina on Saturday and appearing to recount a meeting with NATO leaders, quoted the president of "a big country" that he did not name as asking, "
38% : Nothing new under the sun", Breton said, adding:"He maybe has issues with his memory, it was actually a female president, not of a country, but of the European Union", Breton said, referring to the bloc's Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen and a conversation she had with Trump in 2020.
14% : Two European officials criticized Donald Trump on Sunday after comments the former U.S. president made about not protecting NATO allies who aren't paying enough from a potential Russian invasion.

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