It does not happen every day that a high position of the level of the president of the European Central Bank sends such a direct message against the United States: “Today we are two days of deep geopolitical and geoeconomic changes decided by the president of the United States. I think that For Europe it is the beginning of a path to independence. Trump calls him Liberation Day. I consider that it is a time when we must decide to own our destiny together, ”he said Monday Christine Lagarde. He talked about the need for the EU to take advantage of the opportunity to join the tariffs that the president of the United States launches on Wednesday. With pompa and boato, an ad in the gardens of the White House of a global commercial war. It is the nth call of EU attention.
In one way or another, the highest European leaders have repeated it since, on January 20, the new American administration began to make it clear that it is aimed at colliding against the European Union. That club that, according to Trump, was created to “fuck” the United States. The same as its vice president, JD Vance considers a panda of exploited and, in public, ensures that it is a pseudodemocratic territory where Elections are manipulated and freedom of expression is censored. Such was his speech in Munich before a stunned audience; the president of the International Security Conference, which had organized the conclave, ended up crying in his closing message for the unpublished rupture of eight decades of transatlantic relationship that had just witnessed.
“I would never have thought that something like that would have to say on a television program but, after Donald Trump’s statements last week, it is clear that that government does not care about the fate of Europe,” said the new German chancellor, The democraticristian Friedrich Merz. “My absolute priority will be Strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve its independence from the United States”.
Next, the European locomotive put the money behind these words. It has agreed to invest a billion euros, the equivalent of two thirds of Spanish GDP, to modernize its infrastructure and rearm and modernize its army.
Defense Europe
Everything points to a new political impetus in the construction of the European Union. After the Monetary and Commercial Union, there is now talk about defense Europe. That is the key to the next few years and Trump, its catalyst.
“Trump has put us in front of our responsibility, together with the Russian president Vladimir Putin,” he says in conversation with The newspaper Enrique Barónformer president of the European Parliament and former Minister of Socialist Transport. “Europe is in the process of construction. We have created the currency. If you create a currency, and share destiny, citizenship and values, because you have to defend it. The Europe of defense already had it in the Maastricht treaty. We have done things but We have not taken the final step. Now you have to give it “.
The basic creed of European federalists was already present in the 1950 Schuman statement. Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, proposed the creation of a European Coal and Steel Community whose members would put in common the production of coal and steel, formed in its origin by France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. But said more: “The ultimate goal of the Schuman declaration is a European Federation,” Barón points out, which also presides over the union of Europeanists and federalists of Spain.
European propaganda boom
In social networks there is an incipient and novel phenomenon: the presence of European propaganda videos. Not the classic official message of a European official talking about the goodness of the Erasmus scholarship or the interrail for young people. They are aggressive videos that show the power of European arms companies and teach the EU as the last resort in a tyrannical world dominated by Russia, China and the United States.
In one of them the return of European propaganda is explicitly requested. Under that motto, a series of shocking images with epic music that shows a man fornid with the flag of European stars in their sunglasses, an umbrella formed by The flags of the 27 that protects a girl, Or a lot of cannons that point to heaven, again with community flags.
Another wonders, How does it feel to be European now? It is shown on a map to the United States, to Russia and China, while sordid music is heard, which changes when the video focuses on the European Union: the old continent covered with the flag of stars on blue, wave. And messages like “Europe, your firm guardian.”
A third point directly to war power of Europewhich has set the way to the rearma but not part of zero. If the United States spends 850,000 million in defense, Europe invests 400,000 for its part.
Others boast that, after Trump’s indications that does not guarantee the defense of Europe, the actions of US arms companies (such as Lockheed Martin o Boeing) sank into the stock market and the European ones (from RHeinmetall and Airbus of Bay).
“That propaganda goes in that regard, and of course that European epic, but of the United States, of France or the United Kingdom,” interpreters, “he plays Gonzalo MartínPresident of the largest Proeuropeist Youth Association Team Europe. “Trump is causing a wave, I do not know if to call it European nationalism, but of course he has given the federalizing impulse, reinforces the voices they ask that is constituted in federation and has a constitution”Perhaps, he points out, to create some United States, which was the initial idea of the founders and leaders such as the British Winston Churchill.
