Europe should stand without the US – but the latest battle in the middle east shows it’s no idea how | Nathalie Tocci

Europe should stand without the US – but the latest battle in the middle east shows it’s no idea how | Nathalie Tocci

THe ruined the transatlantic relationship that left European leaders who struggled to see how to think, let it work, in any autonomy. Europe The most motivated requires one’s own mind in the middle of the east.

Unfortunately, the EU governments still start turning on the page after a year and a half of the complexity of Israeli government crimes in Gaza. Donald Trump’s loose plans for a Gaza “Riviera” And “humanitarian” initiatives that violate principles that create the US distance, and European governments began to make their own course.

France and Saudi Arabia have plans a conference In the two-state solutions, may cause recognition to recognize Paris in Palestinian state of Palestine. More importantly, the EU has A review is accepted In the agreement of EU-Israel, which, in the light of Israeli war crimes, should lead to EU Preferential Trade suspension with Tel Aviv, but now no.

However, Israel’s military attacks in Iran and the poor US support that it appears that this insanity is healed in European transfer and to European clarity.

Of course, there is no love for the Iranian regime in the EU chapters for violations of human rights and military cooperation in Russia, especially in the War in Ukraine. In addition, Europe is correctly devoted to Iran should have no nuclear weapon. There is a particular alarm at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s most generalized New Report In violations of Iran in non-infringing agreement.

But we are traditionally strong in need to solve Iran’s nuclear question by diplomacy. This is why European first negotiations invented “E3 / EU format”, consisting of diplomats from France, Germany and UK with high representative of the EU in the Iranarir file.

Now that the world is lost. When Trump launched a direct negotiation with Iran, Europe turned, excluded from any mediation process. Now, with the American military attack in Iran, we failed to set ourselves to the necessary clarity: Where did UN combinations arrest (Article 5), which is specifically prohibited against UN nuclear facilities? It’s something to keep Israel (or any other state) right to self-defense. Else to legitimate pre-emptive strike.

This chronic violence arises because Europe is traditionally watching the world through a transatlantic lens. In most international issues, it is, for decades, working in Washington, using assistance, grasping, defensive, defensive, defensive and involved inexpensive qualities.

On rare occasions are evidently opposed by European countries – while France and Germany did the bush fight, Europe intends to influence the strong US policies than to control the rigid edges than to control the hard edges than to control them. European intervention of Iran nuclear weapons of Iran, for example, bringing the united confidential US and China-developing rivals in US and China developing US and China’s opponents

However foreign Trump policies floating the ball, making a world where Europeans should stand their own feet. And they struggled.

Over UkraineEurope knows the difficult way and strong standing, keeping the help of Kyiv’s financial and military assistance while exploring ways of filling gapnements.

But except Ukraine, we lose. It is true that Europe touches Beijing; This is no longer a star of the eye about China Initiative of belt and road And the strategic risk executed by Beijing’s policies in Europe. The EU begins to screen the Chinese investment in Europe and raised tariffs of electric vehicles in China.

But Trump’s mixed signals mean that Europe should be aware of being alone what is thinking and wanted from Beijing. The EU cannot afford a trading war with many fruits, especially if its own trade talks with Washington Drail.

European governments also learned that they have no way to meet the climate neutrality of 2050, now included in China, which is a leader in Green Economy. Even in an unrealistic event of a comprehensive “deal” between Trump and Xi Jinping, it is difficult to imagine Europeans to look at the ancient companions of multuralism. Europeans should improve their own ideas and policies independent of a misconception, but they do not know how to go there.

In political doubts of the latest warfare, Europe did not receive favor from Washington or repaired his stance in Israel. Meanwhile, all credibility is lost as an honest broker with Iran. The cake cherry is that Russia cried himself as a possible intermediate in turn, with a trumpet of this preposterous proposal.

The risk is that Europe is now also blocking its own route to a more moral combination of gaza horrors: the coming days of Israel, or if it is placed in the back burner.

Ukraine is European’s first interest in security. Despite war, chaos and multitude of nuclear in the Middle East – to be unwilling result of Israeli war – especially in the consequence for Europe than in the US. So far, European response is a distant crying from thinking or acting, which is independent of the US.

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