The EU's foreign policy chief said Europe was "no longer Washington's primary centre of gravity"Europe must step up urgently to improve its defence and make Nato "more European to maintain its strength", because the US has shaken the transatlantic relationship to its foundation, the EU's foreign policy chief has warned. The US would remain Europe's partner and ally, Kaja Kallas told a defence conference, but no great power had ever "outsourced its survival and survived". Tensions with the US escalated when President Donald Trump threatened to annexe Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot reacted to the secretary general's comments on Tuesday by saying, "No, dear Mark Rutte. Washington's transition away from Europe "has been ongoing for a while", the EU foreign policy chief said, adding that it was structural, not temporary.