The 28 EU leaders meet tomorrow in Malta with the intention to raise the section opposite the crises are shaking the European Union, but also to deal with the new political realities in Washington at the first European summit after the inauguration of Donald Trump.
Troubled by the refugee crisis and Brexit, European leaders would like to focus on tackling migration flows in the Mediterranean and in the preparation of the 60th anniversary of the signing of the founding of the Union Treaty of Rome.
But the political positions put forward by the new US administration, designated as "alarming" by the President of the European Council Donald Tusk is sure to cast a shadow on the informal summit work.
Donald Tusk admitted in strict message Tuesday that the changing of the guard in Washington "put in trouble the European Union."
Besides the uncertainty about design of transatlantic relations, the attitude of absolute confidence of China, the aggressive policy of Russia in Ukraine, conflicts, terrorism, anarchy in the Middle East and Africa and the role of extremist Islam are problems sufficient to make the European Union's future "completely unpredictable," he warned in his message Donald Tusk.
The European Union's response to new international balances should be firm and strong, according to the president of the European Council.
In the menu Valletta talks, the issue of after the Trump decree refugees and immigrants banning entry to the US of all refugees, and citizens from seven Muslim countries.
"I have spoken with many of my European counterparts and share the same view: do not approve the decree also concerns European citizens who have dual citizenship," said Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Betel.
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