The speech of the US vice president, JD Vanceopenly criticizing European governments, has not made precisely comfortable their representatives in the Munich Security Conference And a more or less angry response was expected in … which, however, the governments of Germany and Spain.
The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholzyes this intervention began this Saturday putting ahead that does not accept any interference in the ongoing electoral campaign and in the formation of the democratic result of the elections, in reference to Vance’s criticism to the sanitary cords to those who are subjected in Europe Anti -immigration matches.
Scholz recalled the crimes of the National Socialists and the central lesson of history for German democracy: what things like that should not happen again. “The commitment of ‘Never again’ cannot be reconciled with an alternative for Germany (AFD) that describes national socialism as a ‘bird excrement of history,” said historical reason, “and we will not accept that people interfere with our Democracy, in our elections and in our process of formation of opinions ».
Also the president of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeierhe regretted that «the new US administration has a very different world vision from ours, a model that does not take into account the established rules, collaboration and established trust. That cannot be changed, you have to accept and face it. But I am convinced that it is not the interest of the international community that this vision of the world becomes the dominant paradigm, “he said,” anarchy should not become the model for a new world order. “
But, except for Germany, no other European government has exhibited a frontal response to Vance’s speech. “Throwing more firewood, giving the world an image of the Western powers faced with each other, only benefits our enemies,” replied European diplomatic sources. Nor has the matter entered the agendas of bilateral contacts, more focused on talking about tariffs and commercial policy. Spain, on the other hand, did enter the rag.
Albares: “Also in Spain forces of that type grow”
The Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, took advantage of his participation in the panel entitled “Build or burn bridges: economic cooperation and for development in a multipolarization context”, to respond to Vance and define that “we are an open society and, If we change that, we will change Europe ». “That means tolerance, plurality, democracy, that is the essence of Europe,” he continued, “we are not naive, also in my country, in Spain, forces of extreme right of that kind are growing, but we propose exactly the opposite, the values that have provided us with decades of peace and prosperity in Europe ».
Albares struggled to point out inconsistencies in Vance’s speech, such as the fact that forces that are presented as nationalists resort to interference and influences from other forces from abroad. «Precisely because Europe is an open society, we are in favor of free trade and multilateralism. Europe itself is a multilateral creation. And that is why we also believe in peace as a form of relations, because it is always more powerful than the confrontation, ”he insisted.
Apart from these responses, only at the level of political scientists received replica of Vance, which opens a new stage in transatlantic relations that European governments present in the Munich Security Conference They seem to face from pragmatism. The French political scientist of Algerian origin Sami NaïrImmigration expert and creator of the concept of co -development, he has claimed the EU forcefulness before Trump: «The objective is not: we will give answers to be able to negotiate and approach again. The goal is: we harm us, we have to damage it ».
From Washington, at that same time, Trump praised Vance’s speech and described him as “brilliant.” It is true that Europe is losing the “wonderful right to freedom of expression,” pulled the intervention of its vice president.
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