Marco Rubio delivers a speech to European leaders at a security conference in Munich

Marco Rubio, a key figure in the Trump administration, spoke at the Munich Security Conference. He told European leaders that the United States and Europe 'belong together' but that the old world order is gone and Europe must change its policies.

European leaders, including the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas, pushed back against parts of Rubio's message. Kallas specifically rejected his suggestion that Europe is facing a 'civilizational erasure.' After the conference, Rubio traveled to Slovakia and Hungary to meet with pro-Trump leaders there.

The speech and subsequent trip highlighted the ongoing tensions in the transatlantic relationship under the Trump administration, with Rubio delivering a message of conditional unity and European leaders expressing both relief at the softer tone and concern over the underlying demands.