Pompeo: Skeptical US allies should admit it is ‘time to restructure’

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says European allies need to come to terms with the U.S. push to reform international institutions, even as many say European nations are skeptical.

“There’s a long history of countries just refusing to acknowledge that things have changed and it’s time to restructure,” Pompeo told reporters Tuesday while returning from the 2018 NATO Foreign Minister summit in Brussels. “Change is hard everywhere.”

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