French President Emmanuel Macron has advocated in various statements at different times for the creation of an independent European pole that is distant from the US, opposed to Russia and cooperating with China. To understand and evaluate Macron’s statements, it is useful to put the pieces back together, which were displaced with the Ukraine War. First, let me underline the ...
By D. Marjanovic, Croatia During his years in power, French President Emmanuel Macron has already learned to make dramatic statements. For example, he once said that NATO was in a state of clinical death, and he said it at a convenient moment when Donald Trump was in power in the United States. And in February of this year, Emmanuel Macron ...
The approach that the Ukraine conflict has been instigated by the US to detach Europe from Russia and, thus Asia, is gaining wider acceptance day by day. The US, by stirring turmoil in Ukraine, a convergence point of Europe and Asia, aimed in the short term to hinder Eurasian integration and in the long-term China’s extension to Europe through Eurasia. ...
A number of Members of European Parliament and European intellectuals gathered in Brussels, in the buildings of the EP, to make a public call against further arming of Ukraine and in favor of a negotiated solution to the conflict. United World International documents below the call as published here. The participants of the conference Confidence Building Measures in the Face ...
Most recently, the EU executive proposed on September 18th suspending €7.5 billion in EU funding for Budapest, or about a third of the total amount of cohesion funds that Hungary is allocated until 2027. We made an extensive interview with Ferenc Almassy, Editor-in-Chief of Visegrad Post, on the causes of the dispute and the accusations against Victor Orban and Fidezs ...
Turning the EU’s “geopolitical awakening into a more permanent strategic posture” – this is how the EU’s High Representative Josep Borrell announces the “Strategic Compass”. The European Union has adopted its “Strategic Compass for Security and Defence” (SC). The document is result of a long process of consultation ad decision-making. The Council of the European Union has established an according ...
United World International expert Mehmet Perinçek spoke to Turkish daily newspaper Aydınlık on Western sanctions against Russia, their effects on European countries and future frictions within the European Union. Below we publish the interview as printed by Aydınlık. The original interview can be read here. What kind of a roadmap will the EU and NATO follow after the start of ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen French President Emmanuel Macron took over the European Union’s (EU) rotating presidency on Saturday for the next six months. France also took the lead of NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) for a period of one year. In 2021, Turkey commanded this unit. Although he has not yet announced his candidacy, Macron, who made ...