The European Union is at risk of separation

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, publication ” “Focus” of Germany in an article evaluated the European Union on the path of separation and wrote: The European Union is at a critical point. Without decisive action, this organization will inevitably turn from its original vision into a loose and business-oriented organization. In this situation, now the leaders of France and Germany are responsible.

The author continued this article and wrote: The process of European unification has reached a critical point. If a solution to the causes of this dangerous development cannot be found in the next two to four years, this union will inevitably become a loose form with different subgroups and basically limited to economic aspects. With such a free trade zone, the existential problems of European societies and their external challenges cannot be overcome.

This is a description of the 30-year-old situation. Long before 9/11, the global financial crisis, the migration crisis and Brexit, as well as long before the war in Ukraine and the powerful rise of China, two European thinkers, Karl Lammers and Wolfgang Schäuble, wrote a breathtaking visionary action plan for Europe. /p>

Today, in 2024, their suggestions are more necessary than ever. The strengthening of the EU’s foreign and security policy capabilities as outlined by Lammers and Schäuble, its institutional development into a federal confederation of states, and the consolidation of the EU’s central core are closely related and almost exclusively based on Paris and Berlin decisions.

This article continues: If the national governments of Europe do what they promised last December, that is, the expansion of the European Union to Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, If all the Balkan countries and Turkey are serious, then it is inevitable to take new broad steps in the European Union architecture. This is especially necessary if you want the EU to become a powerful geopolitical actor. But the European Union needs a core for this.

The main task of this core is to create a strong center to counter the centrifugal forces in the ever-growing Union. .

On the other hand, Russia’s aggression in the east of the Union and the consequences of its security policy for the entire European Union make it necessary to create a real core of countries that are able and willing to act.

Meanwhile, if America leaves NATO – which cannot be ruled out – Europe, which is sovereign in terms of security policy, needs this core in order to be powerful partners. militarily and politically different from the United States, including England and America.

However, here the architectural issue of creating a solid core can only be The answer is that the two important cores, France and Germany, start to act united and together on these issues.

30 years ago, Schauble and Lammers clearly demanded It was for Berlin and Paris to find each other and to avoid any national ambiguity. But unfortunately, this is exactly where the problems continue.

In the euro crisis, Germany may have taken responsibility for Europe and its currency, but the efforts Germany’s isolation in the fields of energy (Russian gas and phasing out of nuclear energy) and immigration has unfortunately shown that even in Berlin, national temptations win when in doubt.

In their article, Schäuble and Lammers clearly pointed out the danger of Germany’s special approach to Russia’s policy to the detriment of its European partners. This particular path is the most disastrous individual efforts of the Germans.

What Germany – as a result of this strategic misjudgment – failed to do in the military field for years, harmed the defense power of Europe. and threatens the security of Eastern Europe for years to come.

This article continues: But France does not always specify its goals. Emmanuel Macron coined the term “European sovereignty” in his Humboldt speech in Berlin in January 2017. Since then he has been promoting a strong Europe – without saying how this will be achieved. For thirty years, the French people have dreamed of European power without a precise European structure, and Macron remains as vague as his predecessors.

In 2024, more than At any other time, there are things unsaid, hidden and unknown at the core of Europe. And nothing illustrates Europe’s contradictions – and how it undermines itself – better than the separate trips to China by French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Schulz.

In this way, our political leaders travel alone and are surrounded by teams of national CEOs competing for their own privileges.

After three decades Lost, now is the time to finally implement the suggestions of Carl Lammers and Wolfgang Schäuble. This is our deep belief. Because we have reached the limits of the current system.

In another part of this article it is stated: Germany and France as the core, should have a strategy committee consisting of strategists and experts. form a visionary from both countries who will create scenarios and bold proposals in the fields of defense, energy, immigration, society, as well as at the economic, social and budgetary levels.

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