With the own tension that always accompanies the great historical citations, the European Union Summit. The leaders of the twenty -seven gathered in search of an agreement in Brussels on the steps to follow in the War in Ukraine. Europe seems to be clear that Vladimir Putin He will not remove his eye from Europe or with truce or peace, and has been in need of forge a common front that serves to stop the president of Russia. From Ukraine, this step forward of the Union is celebrated. Especially Volodimir Zelenskinow divided between the hope of the new support and the pain for the attitude of contempt and matonism that until now had been his preferential partner, Donald Trump.
That common front already has some numbers: Brussels believes that with this strategy they can Mobilize up to 800,000 million eurosmainly thanks to the flexibility that will give to the Member States within the community deficit and debt rules. It is not its only resource, because the block is also working with a new credit instrument of 150,000 million financed with joint debt emissions. The strategy also proposes to let countries reorient European funds to security and defense spending and use all the financing capacity of the European Investment Bank in this area.
Faith prevails in Ukraine. In the early hours of the summit, Zelenski has felt the support of the block, which has worked for its integration. Without going any further, the Ukrainian President arrived at the event flanked by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and by António Costa, president of the European Council. And once inside, he greeted his European colleagues: one of the first, the German Olaf Scholz; Then, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron; Spanish, Pedro Sánchez… And, then, Víktor Orbán, a Putinist supporter and one of the greatest detractors of the inclusion of Ukraine in the European Union.
The rearme, “life insurance” for Europe
Precisely, this was one of the main issues in a meeting in which Europe urged multiply safety and defense spending To launch when rearming on the continent before what has already been defined not a few times as “existential threat”, which represents Russia’s aggression over Ukraine and, also, before the United States’s turn with respect to this war from Trump’s return to the White House. There was a unanimous support to the Budget Increase Plan in defense at the continental level. Including Spain, which understands this plan as “Life insurance”. This was stated by Sánchez, who went further: “Life in it”.
So much so that the executive leader has already announced his intention to reach 2% of your GDP in defense spending before 2029. This will be transferred to the leaders of the parliamentary groups – less vox – in the meeting that will hold with them Next week. It will not be complicated, since in this matter an almost total tuning was seen in the European meeting. Such is the short -term scenario that is glimpsed in Europe that there was no capital that would not support rearma. Yes, as expected, more problems regarding Ukraine.
Specifically, in the chapter on military support to Ukraine, of which Hungary was unmarked. The heads of state and government support “to continue increasing substantially the expense in the security and defense of Europe”, while supporting the plan to “rearm” the continent that the European Commission recently presented. In what all the countries of the Union agree, it is in the need to Rearm Europe. All, although some with more enthusiasm than others, support the ambitious plan of Von der Leyen to reinforce European armies. In addition, the French government has announced that next Tuesday it will host a meeting of all chiefs of staff of all countries that want to contribute to peace. Spain will also be at that meeting.
Macron’s ‘nuclear umbrella’
What was not discussed in that extraordinary European council is Macron’s offer to make its nuclear arsenal available to Europe. The French prime minister has erected as one of the most combative European leaders against Putin and that is why he met alone with Zelenski this Thursday. It was another of the powerful images of the afternoon in Brussels. There, the Ukrainian President thanked Macron for his eve’s speech.
The tension between Paris and Moscow is at maximum after the words and the tone of Macron in that intervention. The Gallic president knows Putin well: he is convinced that he will not stop in Ukraine and, what is more, considers Russia a threat. That is why he offers France as ‘Nuclear umbrella’ from Europe. An offer to which Putin has used Napoleon Bonaparte To threaten Macron.
The Kremlin remembered this Thursday the Elyseo that Napoleon was defeated in Russia, in 1812. Macron responded, in turn, accusing Russia of being a power “Imperialist revisionist” and to Putin himself, to fail to comply with peace agreements. “It is a historical contradiction: Napoleon made conquests and The only imperial power that I see now in Europe is called Russia. He is an imperialist revisionist of the history and identity of the peoples, “he said.
Source: Lasexta
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