Europe has right to expect US to treat transatlantic community as top priority: Polish premier

By Ilayda Cakirtekin

ISTANBUL (AA) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Monday said that Europe has the right to expect US to treat the transatlantic community as a top priority.

"The US has the right to ask for greater involvement from Europe, just as Europe has the right to expect the US to treat the transatlantic community as a top priority," Tusk said at the Warsaw Security Forum.

Underlining that they have a "clearer understanding" of the real threads of the 21st century, he said that they are thinking about security in a "smarter, broader and more intensive" way.

"Peace is not guaranteed once and for all. That is why efforts to ensure security are so important," the prime minister added.

Tusk further expressed solidarity with Ukraine, saying: "This war is also our war."

"There is a war. Today, the greatest task of all public opinion leaders is to painfully understand, to the depths of the minds and hearts of the entire Western community, that there is a war. Unwanted, in places strange, of a new kind, but there is a war," he added, urging leaders not to live "in illusions" and to understand the fact.

"Peace is not a given," he added.