In the aftermath of the Greenland crisis, the EU's top diplomat has urged European nations to stop outsourcing their security and defense, Euro News reported. 

The changes in the relationship between Europe and the United States are "structural, not temporary", EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said, as she warned against the dangers of outsourcing security in a new age of "coercive power politics".

Her remarks come on the heels of US President Donald Trump's attempt to seize Greenland from Denmark through punitive tariffs, an unprecedented dispute that brought the nearly 80-year-old transatlantic alliance to the brink of collapse.

The tensions were defused by a framework deal on Arctic security, the details of which remain under discussion.

"Arguably, the biggest change in the fundamental reorientation is going on across the Atlantic: a rethinking that has shaken the transatlantic relationship to its foundation," Kallas said on Wednesday morning at the European Defense Agency's annual conference.
"Let me be clear: we want strong trans-Atlantic ties. The US will remain Europe's partner and ally. But Europe needs to adapt to the new realities. Europe is no longer Washington's primary center of gravity."

"This shift has been ongoing for a while," she added, referring to previous American administrations. "It is structural, not temporary. It means that Europe must step up. No great power in history has ever outsourced its survival and survived."

In her speech, Kallas labelled Russia a "major security threat", China a "long-term challenge", and the Middle East a "completely unpredictable" region.

These developments, coupled with Trump's no-holds-barred foreign policy, have put a "severe strain on the international norms, rules and institutions enforcing them that we have built over 80 years", Kallas said.

"The risk of a full-blown return to coercive power politics, spheres of influence and a world where might makes right is very real," she noted.
She then exhorted European nations to "acknowledge that this tectonic shift is here to stay and act with urgency".