The European Union and the United States should defend common Western values rather than their own interests, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Thursday (May 25) after meeting US president Donald Trump in Brussels. "What gives our cooperation and friendship its deepest meaning are fundamental Western values, like freedom, human rights and respect for human dignity," Tusk said after the meeting. "The greatest task today is the consolidation of the whole free world around those values, and not just interests."