“We all badly needed it: too many things have happened in the last few months in your country and in the EU, new and unexpected things have been said about our relationships and our common security to pretend nothing happened”. This is how the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, thanked deputy US president Mike Pence, after the meeting they had in Brussels this morning. “International order and security”, Tusk stated, can only be maintained through “a common, mutually supported and decisive policy that concerns all of western community” as a “guarantee, or at least a hope, of the fact that chaos, violence and arrogance will not triumph”. According to Tusk, “we must join forces to update the forms of cooperation”, aware that “the idea of NATO is not obsolete”: if “everything can be re-discussed”, this must be done to “strengthen our solidarity, never to weaken it”. Neither shall the United States fail “to give full, clear support to the idea of a united Europe”, because “splitting paves the way to failure”. As reported by Tusk, deputy president Pence stated he agrees on such issues. Tusk also mentioned that president Regan’s support of Poland after the enforcement of martial laws in 1981 helped Poles not to lose hope and determination. “Cooperation and solidarity” will still be the job of the USA and Europe together, Tusk concluded.