European Commission backs Macron's strategy against the unvaccinated in France

The European Commission has closed ranks with the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, in his strategy of annoying or fucking - Spanish translation of "

", an expression used by the president - to the unvaccinated and thus change their mind. Without resorting to the popular language of the French politician, the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has supported him using the tool launched by the EU, the covid passport: “Freedom is always combined with responsibility, and not only for myself, but for others: my neighbors, my family, others. Both things go together. A government must protect from equality and the passport is a form of protection ”.

Von der Leyen's words followed the statements of the French president, who justified his words on Tuesday when he said: “I really want to

for the unvaccinated . And we will continue to do so until the end. That is the strategy. I'm not going to put them in prison, and I'm not going to forcibly vaccinate them. But you have to tell them: as of January 15, you will no longer be able to go to a restaurant, you will not be able to have a drink or go to the theater, you will not be able to go to the movies… ”. And this Friday he had an impact by saying that it was his responsibility "to sound the alarm a little." "It is what I have done this week, so that things can move more quickly," he continued.

“To be a citizen is to have rights and duties. And first are homework. The concept of freedom, which some of our compatriots hold up to say: 'I have the freedom not to be vaccinated', ends where the freedom of the other is hindered, where the life of the other can be in danger, "said Macron, who He has not yet formalized his candidacy for the French presidential elections next April, but he has marked the electoral debate with two of his movements: putting the European flag on the Arc de Triomphe and the use of the controversial word

Vaccination is the great bet of the European Union - and practically the whole world - to fight against the pandemic, which has just turned two years old. The proclamations of politicians, officials and experts of the Twenty-seven are constant in all their public appearances, especially addressing those who have decided not to be vaccinated and those countries that lag further behind, something that within the Union is not due to the lack of dose, but to the decision of many citizens not to receive the injection.

Macron and Von der Leyen spoke in Paris, at the Elysee Palace, at an inaugural press conference of the French presidency of the European semester. He has reiterated his priorities for these six months, concretized in initiatives such as a tax on products that want to enter the EU and do not meet European standards for CO2 emissions during their manufacture, the "improvement of electricity production" [in clear reference to taxonomy and its nuclear commitment], digital transformation and ecological transition. The ambitious agenda that Macron has self-imposed, despite the short time he will have to develop it (the first round of the French elections is held on April 10),It also goes through the geopolitical commitment (a summit with the countries of the African Union in February to expand support for this region) and the culmination of Europe's strategic autonomy, whose plan will be unveiled in March, after several high-level meetings. level to finish it.

It is precisely this matter that has been going through Russia these weeks and the situation in Ukraine, to which Kazakhstan has been added in recent days. Following in the wake of the EU's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, in the previous days, President Von der Leyen has endorsed the phrase “no solution without Europe”, a few words that challenge Washington and , above all, to Moscow so that in their conversations they do not leave aside the EU, nor Ukraine itself, nor act as in the decades of the Cold War, dividing up “spheres of influence”, another expression widely used in the fields diplomats in recent weeks.

Macron has been less forceful at this point when responding on this issue.

At least four times in the same response, the French president has used the word "dialogue."

Although that does not mean that he has forgotten the idea that Borrell and Von der Leyen have deployed when they also demand "the inclusion of Europe."

Macron has also defended his recent rapprochement with Italy, materialized in the signing with Prime Minister Mario Draghi of the so-called Quirinal Treaty, which he has said is "a broad collaboration agreement" between the two countries.

This approach is not made at the expense of "friendship" with Germany, the French president has pointed out, who has even made reference to the fact that these interpretations seem to be the object of psychoanalysis.

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