En designating the European Union (EU) as his opponent, Donald Trump may have rendered the Europeans an extraordinary service. Indeed, while the EU had not progressed, institutionally speaking, for several decades, that public opinion continued to disinterested, that the publishers were not recommending to write on Europe, suggesting that it would be an assured oven, the EU was brutally returned to the heart of conversations and hopes.
While it was considered, on the far left as in the extreme right, as the enemy to fight, the call to leave it never being far away, the EU suddenly appears as a familiar, reassuring, protective presence. And, while, before, all government parties were trying to bring the hat of unpopular decisions to the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, its president, today takes on the air of a matriarch.
Faced with the staggering of the American president, Europeans have finally decided to strengthen their links, to provide a common response to the double threat represented by Russia and the United States, and seem to have suddenly aware of everything that brings them together.
In fact, if, seen from the inside, we tend to grow the political, economic and cultural differences existing between the member states, the charter of fundamental rights of the EU – signed in 2000 but endowed with a legal force equal to that of the treaties since 2009 [lorsque le traité de Lisbonne, qui l’a intégrée en 2007, entre en vigueur] – brilliantly shows the singularity of the EU and the values it proclaims: “The EU is based on the indivisible and universal values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity; It is based on the principle of democracy and the principle of the rule of law. She places the person at the heart of his action by instituting the citizenship of the EU and by creating a space of freedom, security and justice. »»
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Source: Lemonde