The image is from a few days ago, but it must be recognized that the contempt to which Erdogan subjected the president of the European Commission has exposed the discredit in which the community authorities have fallen in recent times. The lout of Charles Michel, president of the European Council, has waited until this week to apologize to Ursula von der Leyen for having accepted without shame the chair that the Turkish president gave him next to him while he despised German politics by sitting her on a distant sofa . The sofagate scene is not an anecdote or a failure of protocol. It is a full-blown disregard, which had the complicity of a Belgian politician unable to react and show his face for his colleague. Before Ursula, Borrel had already suffered contempt, in this case from the Russian foreign minister, in a joint press appearance.
The European project with the vaccination strategy for its citizens is not going well either. We look with envy as the inoculation of vaccines advances among the population of countries to which, from our stupid Eurocentrism, we do less, while in the Old Continent we are disheartened by the continuous changes of criteria of the political and health authorities. The corny ones will say that the EU needs a re-foundation that allows Europeans to recover the original illusion that led to the erasure of borders and a history of hatred between neighboring countries. Royalists will look to the British and those Brexit advocates who are loading up on new reasons after the latest Brussels fiascos. They will say that Europe does not continue to be built only with the manna of the funds that arrive from Germany and the frugal countries. The world is changing its geostrategic balances and the 27 members of the Union must reflect on the future of a club that seems more like bureaucrats than citizens.
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