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Bruno Alomar: “Behind martial declarations, Europeans still refuse to ensure their own security”

2024-03-06T18:26:37.361Z

Highlights: Bruno Alomar: “Behind martial declarations, Europeans still refuse to ensure their own security”. Emmanuel Macron's statements on sending troops to Ukraine have highlighted the absence of political will behind the idea of ​​"Defense Europe", analyzes the former senior official at the European Commission. By declaring at the end of the Paris summit that sending ground troops to support Ukraine's effort against Russia should not be ruled out in principle, Emmanuel Macron triggered a diplomatic crisis. Most of its allies firmly dissociated themselves from the French position, starting with the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom.


TRIBUNE - Emmanuel Macron's statements on sending troops to Ukraine have highlighted the absence of political will behind the idea of ​​"Defense Europe", analyzes the former senior official at the European Commission.


*Former senior official at the European Commission, Bruno Alomar published “

Reform or Insignificance.

Ten

years to save the European Union

” (Éditions de l’École de guerre, 2018).

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By declaring at the end of the Paris summit that sending ground troops to support Ukraine's effort against Russia should not be ruled out in principle, Emmanuel Macron triggered a diplomatic crisis.

In the hours that followed, most of its allies firmly dissociated themselves from the French position, starting with the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom.

The Russian authorities were able to see the state of division among Westerners.

Nothing surprising, one would say, in this new outburst from the French president.

Whether it is describing NATO as “

brain dead

 ”, declaring on October 22, 2022 that a

Russian nuclear ballistic strike against Ukraine or in the region

did not engage

our fundamental interests

, the president, uncomfortable with concepts, diplomacy…

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Source: lefigaro

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