We nonetheless have no idea the place “the world of Trump” will go, on condition that “the golden age he had promised is a chaos age”, however the disengagement of the United States from Europe has not began right this moment. And Europe should pay attention to it and react. As? «First of all by constructing a typical protection. We can’t consider having the ability to defend ourselves with particular person armies. I do not need our grandchildren to reside beneath the blackmail of dictatorships as a result of now we have not assured him a deterrence capability ». The former premier and former European commissioner, Paolo Gentiloni, spoke on the Trento Economy Festival on the panel “as Europe in the world of Trump”, doesn’t flip round.
«After the annexation of Crimea by Russia – he recollects – Poles and Baltic had warned us: if you don’t react decisively, this story will return. We have been extra optimistic, however they have been proper ». Today the European Union is not optimistic, however just a little “shy” sure in deciding, in substance, to place the armies collectively. “A few steps forward in these days with the 150 billion loan fund has been done – he says to the Economy Festival by answering the questions of Giuseppe De Filippi, deputy director of the TG5 – but they are loans and the advantage that the countries have is in the order of half a billion euros of minor expenses for interest, less than that which he ensured on the beginning of the pandemic. Too little to convince every single Member State to give up their tank ».
Germany and Eurobonds for defense
He defines as “a crack” to have called the European plan “Rearm Europe”: “Better” Defocracy, for example “. But what most annoys him is the absence of reactions to Germany’s resolution -” Germany! ” To “allocate, with a decayed government” 50 billion for the protection, with none availability or a minimum of a dialogue on the “possibility of building a common defense financed with the emission of common debt, new Eurobonds” comparable to these issued to finance Nextgeneration EU and PNRR. huge issues. and with out a severe deterrence, as we’ll defend our values, our welfare, our state of regulation? “and Italy should” say its “on this delicate matter, not to let France and Germany, perhaps to Russia “.
Returning to Trump and on the age of chaos, “those who make economic forecasts always say that we are in a phase of uncertainty, but here it is not uncertainty, here there is a mess, a situation in which we are all there every day to see what decisions they arrive. And the latter of 50% of the duties for the European Union is really very serious, you have to take it seriously, not only as a negotiating position that will eventually adjust, because it is not so ».
Italy use good relationships to defend the country
«My impression, if you think about the speed and radicality of the decisions that are made in all fields is that it is not just a matter of duties. I think it is a Trump who wants to redesign the role of America in the world in some way. It is not a negotiating position to obtain some results, some advantage. And in addition Trump wants to make a lot of money: there is also this dimension that is very disturbing from the point of view of the conflict of interest “added the previous premier who then spoke of the position and place of Italy. “Have you heard somebody from the federal government? I do not assume. Every from time to time the nice relationships should be used to defend their nation, their nation. The impression is whereas with Biden the overseas coverage of the Italian authorities has been reassuring, with Trump we not know the place to go. The compass should be the European Union and the curiosity of the nation. Instead in current weeks I see an excessive amount of shyness and it worries me ».
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