The European Union should keep on positioning with its own view, rather than act just as a junior partner of the U.S., said former Prime Minister of Belgium Yves Leterme during in an interview with China Media Group.

I think we should not lose our temper and we should stay cool-headed. I think it is not strange that at the moment that China re-enters the world's history in such a short period of time shows what I would call an unprecedented socioeconomic development that is a global rebalancing of power," said Leterme.