Financial Times, 8 noviembre 2024.
Financial Times y Timothy Garton Ash, en The Guardian, se preguntan si la Unión Europea (UE) podrá sobrevivir a sus divisiones y crisis económicas, sociales y políticas, ante el doble desafío de Donald Trump y Vladimir Putin.
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Financial Times:
«… the EU confronts a new crisis: its long term global economic relevance» [ .. ] «old divisiones and delaying agreement» [ .. ] «There’s a pandémica tope of crisis, and there is a slow erosion us gliding toward irrelevance…». Financial Times, 8 noviembre 2024, Can Europe’s Unity survive as its sense of crisis grows?
Timothy Garton Ash:
«Intellectually, many Europeans recognise that, sandwiched between an aggressively advancing Russia and an aggressively withdrawing America, Europe needs to do more for its own defence. The French intellectual Emmanuel Macron, who also happens to be president of France, reacted to Trump’s victory by informing the X- Twittersphere that he had spoken to German chancellor Olaf Scholz and they would work together for a “more united, stronger, more sovereign Europe in this new context”. But as a result of Macron’s own hubris, France now has a weak, unstable government effectively dependent for its political survival on the Putin-friendly populist Marine Le Pen. And Scholz’s government fell apart a few hours later, leaving Europe’s central power in pre- and post-electoral limbo, potentially for months, during this crucial period of geopolitical transition. Among the ostensible causes of the coalition’s collapse was the refusal of the Free Democrat leader and finance minister Christian Lindner to accept an extra €3bn of urgent support for Ukraine as part of a €9bn package of emergency spending.
Europe is also deeply divided in its response to Trump. In many of the more than 40 European countries represented at the European Political Community summit in Budapest yesterday, there were significant political forces that enthusiastically support him, and some of them are in power. Top of the list is the host of that meeting, Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, but he is joined by such figures as Robert Fico in Slovakia, Aleksandar Vučić in Serbia and Geert Wilders, whose party is part of the ruling coalition in the Netherlands. Italy’s Giorgia Meloni may lean that way too. Not formally in national office, but still with political influence, are the likes of Le Pen in France, Nigel Farage in Britain, the AfD in Germany, the Law and Justice party in Poland and Vox in Spain. According to a study by Europe Elects, in seven European countries – Slovenia, Slovakia, Moldova, Bulgaria, Hungary, Georgia and Serbia – a majority of those asked would have voted for Trump if they had had the chance (excluding the don’t knows). They join the 78% of Russians who would have done the same. Yes, Trump is Russia’s choice…» The Guardian, 8 noviembre 2024. Timothy Garton Ash,Trump’s return is terrible news for Ukraine. Europe should step into the breach but will it?
Las negritas son mías.
Muy groseramente…
¿No estará Europa, la UE, caminando hacia la «irrelevancia» internacional?
La victoria de Trump ha agravado diferencias profundas de todo tipo, presupuestarias, políticas, económicas, militares.
Las extremas derechas, de la AfD a Vox, de Meloni a Orban, pasando por Le Pen, esperan beneficiarse… pero: Ukrania puede ser la gran víctima, anunciando catástrofes muy profundas…
Francia coquetea con la decadencia; Alemania, kaput.
Trump, Macron, Le Pen y Europa, víctima del trumpismo.
El triunfo de Donald Trump anuncia el fin del sueño americano y una nueva era histórica.
Donald Trump gana en los EE. UU., la democracia liberal retrocede en Occidente.
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