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00:00Yeah, it's ironic, isn't it? You know, you've got Brexit Britain on the other side of the
00:04channel from where you are looking increasingly towards European allies and Europeans looking
00:11increasingly towards London, hence the venue for those talks, very much singing from the
00:15same song sheet. But how would you describe, what words would you use to describe the state
00:21of transatlantic relations between Europe and the United States? Where are we?
00:27I think it is a necessary link, but a difficult one. I mean that Europeans shouldn't wait
00:37every four years to know what's the decision of 20,000 electorate in the US. They must
00:45be autonomous, put burden inside NATO, the European pillar, and then be able to discuss
00:56with US and not only to sustain what US is deciding. So I think the link is really necessary,
01:07but we must be realistic. Europe is not in the centre of the interest of the US. So we
01:16should show that we are an important part of the link, not only the US link, but also
01:24the European link.