EU must be united, says Tusk

The president of the European Council has attacked Donald Trump’s “capricious assertiveness” after the US leader pulled his country out of the Iran nuclear deal and threatened the EU with tariffs on steel imports.

In a letter to EU leaders ahead of their meeting last night in Sofia, Donald Tusk said “with friends like Donald Trump, the EU could ask, who needs enemies?”

He added that the EU needed to be united “economically, politically and also militarily like never before” or risk being “a pawn” in global politics.