![]() In his speech at the Sorbonne, President Macron called for “European sovereignty”, Chancellor Angela Merkel believes that we “have to take our fate into our own hands”, while President Ursula von der Leyen wishes to lead a “geopolitical Commission” and the Union’s head of Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, argues that it must learn the “language of power”. Already in 2014, Donald Tusk, then President of the European Council, declared “History is back.” The events we have witnessed since then have only accelerated its return.įaced with power politics both new and old, European leaders are searching for a response. China’s strongman, Xi Jinping, engages in a policy of divide and conquer through investments and vaccines, while in the United States - no less under Biden than under Trump - the narrative of a new Cold War spreads. Erdoğan, his Turkish counterpart, scoffs at the edges of the Greco-European border, liberally deploying warships and blackmailing us with refugees. President Putin unapologetically redraws maps and sends Russian poisoners and cyber soldiers to Western Europe. For the past ten or so years, a flood of events reported by the press has been forcing us to adjust our concepts and our mental map of the world. In Jena, Hegel wrote in his journal, “Reading the morning newspaper is a sort of morning prayer.” What he meant was that it was a way of adopting a position in the world, not on the basis of divine certainties, but rather in terms of the world as it is. Voir tous les articles Europe’s Geopolitical Awakening
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