EU’s Kallas: listening to Vance speech felt like United States was trying to pick fight with us

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)

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