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The international locations of the European Union “endure an financial stagnationexcessive inflation, a rise in unemployment and a stage of debt that endangers its permanence within the euro,” he considers Jose Menezes Gomes, professor of Economics on the Federal College of Alagoas (UFAL). On this context he highlighted the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, who made fluctuating statements on the continent’s greatest geopolitical challenge: the ukrainian battle.
«At one level he says that he’s going to contribute to the protection of each metro within the EU. The subsequent commit a severe diplomatic mistake by implying that French and British forces are working cruise missiles which might be ostensibly underneath Ukrainian management,” he mentioned.
He added that every one this happens at a time when “Scholz’s reputation falls additional, whereas the intense proper expands in
Germany and within the European Parliament.”
The primary public disagreements between the 2 leaders vary from financial treaties, such because the Mercosur-EU free commerce settlement, authorized by
Germany however rejected by
France as a technique to defend its farmers, to, extra importantly, how
act within the face of the Ukrainian battle.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has all the time adopted a extra warmongering stance, Gomes recalled. In interviews with the British media The Economist In 2019 and 2024, the president bolstered the necessity for the European Union to regain a navy function, “offering itself with its personal protection mechanisms.”
“At the moment [2019], the French president mentioned that NATO was in a state of mind loss of life. For Macron, it was a betrayal of Donald Trump [expresidente de EEUU]», he burdened.
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