Avignon, France - The European Union must close ranks with the United States if the two powers are to protect their global influence, EU foreign ministers are set to say on Friday.
At an informal meeting in the French city of Avignon, the foreign ministers of the EU's 27 member states are due to discuss how they would like to cooperate with the next US president to solve questions of global security such as climate change and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, officials told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.