The Warsaw summit is focused largely on bolstering western solidarity reassuring eastern Europe against fears of Russian encroachment. The document annoyed the US and Canada, which are wary of Europe duplicating Nato military structures. On the eve of the summit, Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, and the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, insisted that Brexit would not affect the strength of the alliance. Barack Obama has insisted that solidarity between the US and Europe will not be affected by Brexit, as leaders flew to Warsaw for a Nato summit that the US president said was the “most important moment” for the alliance since the end of the cold war. Obama said the lesson of the Brexit vote was that “governments cannot be remote institutions” but had to respond quickly to the fears and needs of the people.

Source: The Guardian July 08, 2016 04:00 UTC