The current panorama, with Trump back in the White House, the Russian invasion of Ukraine still underway and a possible rearm of the European Union to deal with this situation can lead many citizens to plunge into the uncertainty of an uncertain future. “We just had just believed at all,” said Pablo Martínez Oses, responsible for research and incidence in cooperation of Oxfam Intermón.
“If you advance in the war phase, it is very possible that answering movements such as the pacifist arise, because societies always react”, although they can also do so from the perspective of the ultra -right: there are people who live without certainties and in the “precariousness, even being in the best part of the world”, and this “is because the institutions have not known how to respond clearly to their challenges. The ultra -right has managed to capitalize on those fears. ”
“I do not believe that the US wants to destroy European institutions, but an EU with parties in the government most aligned with their policies,” and hence the support of ultra -right parties, said Alba Leiva, editor in the world order. “Those forces here will have to do if they are aligned with their state interests or those of Trump.”
The European Union is at a complex moment and “the United States has become a non -reliable partner,” said Leiva. This fact is worrying, since there are huge shared strategic interests. “Every day there are commercial transactions between the EU and the US worth 4,400 million euros. We are investment partners in many places. Despite the changing context, the EU wants to continue trusting fully in the US, ”he said María Canal Fontcuberta, Chief of Press and spokesman for the European Commission in Spain. “Trump forces to make decisions in a scenario of great uncertainty”, but “it costs time to make those decisions, and that is the great challenge of the EU right now,” Leiva added.
One of those decisions is to rearm or not, with the investment of 800,000 million proposed by Ursula von der Leyen. “The 800,000 million do not seem good news,” said Martínez, who stressed that for once the EU spoke without euphemisms of rearma and that he proposed to obtain that amount through taxes to the millionaires or the energy companies. “I do not say that some tanks are not needed, but we believe that there are other priorities that can generate positive effects on these threats. How much we would have wanted this financing to have gone for other issues ”, among which he appointed the climatic crisis. Martínez added: “The fundamental investment is investment in democracy, with stronger institutions so that the State is not weakened and those who have more power cannot define labor and social relations of the rest. That is the defense that the poor have. ” Martínez insisted that it had to “demand that our institutions be bravest than they are in protection of rights.”
“There is a real threat and we cannot stay with crossed arms,” said Canal. “The green agenda was in the focus, but the pandemic arrived and then the war in Ukraine.” But Europe’s commitment to decarbonization continued and is still there. Prosperity will have to share the focus with security, but also with decarbonization, doing it in an intelligent way so that companies do not leave, supporting the industry, he concluded.
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