European leaders called Monday for unity after fresh comments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that they feared could herald a break with decades of support from Washington for European integration and the trans-Atlantic alliance.

“We Europeans have our destiny in our own hands,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a news conference in Berlin. She said that in the face of an uncertain U.S. policy, the Continent’s capitals need to “work together intensively” and look “toward the future.”

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