Europe should build its own army and not rely on security guarantees from Washington, the European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said in Berlin following the election of Donald Trump.

"We need it now. The idea that the Americans will eternally see to ... European security is not true. Independent of the outcome of the US election, the Americans will not see to Europe’s security forever," he said.

"We have to do it ourselves. And this is why we need a new approach to the European community of defense, including a European army".