US White House: ‘Work more closely with Italy and others to distance them from the EU’

Washington (US), 10 December (LaPresse) – Austria, Italy, Poland and Hungary are the countries with which the United States should ‘collaborate more, with the aim of distancing them’ from the European Union. This is what we read in the version of the National Security Strategy, circulated before the White House published the unclassified version of the document last week, which caused such a stir in Europe. The specialised website Defense One reports on this, summarising the main points: competition with China, withdrawal from European defence, and a new focus on the Western Hemisphere. But the full version of the document, viewed by Defense One, also proposes, in relation to the Old Continent, new tools to influence its future by affecting its cultural values.