Just a few weeks after criticizing the EU's "complicity" in the face of US President Donald Trump's threats to take over Greenland at the World Economic Forum in Davos, California Governor Gavin Newsom had something different to say at the Munich Security Conference.

"The European Union, I feel, is more centered than it's been in some time because they recognize what's at stake," he told DW. "The success of Europe is the success of the United States. There's an interdependence here."