The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on Friday, October 3, a “beginning” of European democracies, threatened according to those who fall apart from confidence in institutions and by “an axis of autocratic states.”
“A question has been established in our institutions (…). There is something that happens in our countries” suggesting “a degeneration of our democracies,” said Emmanuel Macron, invited to Sarrebruck, a city in the southwest of the German France Germany, for the 35th anniversary of German reunification.
Notably pointed out “the social networks that are in the hands of great American businessmen or great Chinese societies” and that “let a democratic public space appear where people are in a hood, anonymous, where the rule is more that should insult the other if you want to be popular.”
The French head of state asked Europeans to “begin” to “rebuild a democracy of the 21st century”, otherwise, Europe will become “within ten years”, according to him “a continent, like many others, conspirators, extremes, noises and fury.”
“Our free lifestyle is attacked”
The engines of European construction, France and Germany see radical political parties, especially on the right, progress regularly to the detriment of more moderate parties accustomed to governing.
“Our free lifestyle is attacked, both outside and inside,” Friedrich Merz added, punishing “an axis of autocratic states that doubts the liberal order of the whole world” and “openly challenges Western democracies.”
“We must learn to defend ourselves” to deter our opponents from the new attacks, “he added, without appointing Russia.
Inverted in May, the conservative chancellor wants to make his country the spearhead of the European rearmament, given the Russian threat and the American disconnection. Like Germany, European countries have multiplied military investments since the attack on Russia against Ukraine in 2022.
Emmanuel Macron also asked Europe to become “for the first time, a military power” and, therefore, put an end to “a form of happy or unhappy vassalization, according to the elections on which we depend.”
The previous day, at an informal summit of the 27 heads of state and government of the EU in Copenhagen, Brussels proposed to implement a “wall” Anti -Didron against recent recursions of vehicles of this type in Europe attributed to Moscow.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Kremlin carefully followed “the growing militarization of Europe”, promising a “response to threats.”
Source: BFM TV
