The leaders of the Old Continent held the first meeting of this new body proposed by Emmanuel Macron following the trigger of the war in Ukraine.
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At the forefront, around the Czech Prime Minister, Petr Fiala, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, stand the Turkish autocrat Recep Tayyip, his ally Azéri Ilham Aliev, Russophile leaders Serbian Aleksandar Vucic and Hungarian Viktor Orban . Question of protocol, no doubt, but the “family photo” in the majestic enclosure of the Prague castle is just as improbable as symbolic. While fighting continues to rage in Ukraine, forty-four heads of state and government from the whole continent laid, Thursday, October 6, the foundation stone of the European political community (CPE) proposed by Emmanuel Macron here Pain five months. “I do not know who managed this photo, but Mark Rutte [the Dutch Prime Minister] is all alone in a corner, small women are behind, hidden …”, laughs a diplomat.
Sign of his continental isolation, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, had not been invited, any more than his obligated Belarusian, Alexandre Loukachenko. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not there either because of the fights, but it was he who, after the Czech leader, opened the debates at a distance from kyiv, highlighting the need to face Russia . “We must punish the aggressor,” he said by video, before being applauded by his counterparts: “This war must be won now, so that the Russian fleet cannot block other ports of the sea Black, the Mediterranean or any other sea. So that Russian tanks do not advance on Warsaw or Prague. “For him, war is far from over, at a time when his troops are in full -offensive to take up the territories occupied and annexed by Moscow.
bring the enemies closer to always
Unimaginable before the return of war in Europe, on February 24, the event will therefore have made it possible to display a minimum of unity between the leaders of the European Union and their seventeen neighbors, some of whom are ambiguous With regard to Vladimir Putin. “None of us can face alone. Even the European Union needs all European countries to work together,” said Lithuanian president Gitanas Nareda. For the Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander de Croo, it is a question of working “for the stability of the continent”, in particular in the event of a new escalation. And to fight together against the consequences of the return of war to Europe, such as the explosion of energy prices against the backdrop of the gas battle with Moscow.
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