Europe must unite if it wants to play a leading role in world geopolitics, as it risks disintegrating due to the "bully" policy of US President Donald Trump. This was stated on Tuesday in Mexico by Spanish politician and diplomat Josep Borrell.
"In the face of Trump's bully attitude, Europeans, if we want to matter, must be more united. We all know very well that in our international system, to get things done, we have to act in agreement, and we are not acting in agreement," the diplomat stated.
Borrell believes that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin do not like the European Union and have disdained the mechanisms of its unity because it is more convenient and profitable for them to negotiate with the most important countries individually, assuming the rest will follow, and if they don't, "so be it."
Former Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, for his part, noted that as the US president loses his ability to interfere in European conflicts, he will try to get more involved with Latin American countries, as has happened with Mexico and now with Venezuela.
According to Insulza, both Trump's intervention in international politics and the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, and Israel and Palestine, have changed the world's geopolitical landscape in a worrying way.
"We have a situation where the number of conflicts in the world is quite large, but the inability to resolve them is also very strong. I don't know if it will be the opposite, that instead of federating, uniting, and offering a common front to him and the rest of the world, we will become more fragmented," said the former High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs.
This conversation took place within the framework of the International Meeting of Government and Civil Society, held as part of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) in Mexico. Insulza also emphasized that the idea of multilateralism has been set aside, as negotiations in the UN Security Council over serious conflicts fall to a small group of countries.
"This is very dramatic, the real loss of what was important both globally and regionally, which was the strength of multilateralism," he said.
What is surprising about this new scenario, Insulza stressed, is that the United States, the country that had promoted this multilateral system, no longer believes in it.
