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Nicolas Baverez: "The submission of Europe to Sultan Erdogan"

2021-04-11T19:04:58.342Z


CHRONICLE - The appeasement card played by the European Union with Turkey is all the more astonishing as the Union benefits from significant means of pressure on Ankara. The latter are still little or not used.


Inspired by Vladimir Putin who in February expelled diplomats from Germany, Poland and Sweden during the meeting between Josep Borrell and Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Recep Tayyip Erdogan humiliated the Union by relegating Ursula von der Leyen on a sofa, at a good distance from Charles Michel and himself.

He thus displayed his contempt for gender equality and more broadly for the universal values ​​that Europe claims to be, in line with Ankara's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention intended to combat violence against women. women.

This outrageous staging, of which it remains incomprehensible that the two most senior leaders of the Union submitted to it, underlines the inconsistency of the policy of appeasement pursued vis-à-vis the Islamic democrature of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. .

It illustrates the gap between the Union's ambitions and its inability to defend its interests as well as its principles.

With Turkey, the Union is in the process of demonstrating

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Source: lefigaro

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