Josep Borrelluntil months ago the High EU representativeNor do you believe in the formula of. For whatever Head of Community Diplomacyit is impossible to move from the current range of 2% to 5% in just ten years.
The key, for Borrell, is in a paradigm shift and not so much in the figures. Thus, whoever was the high position of the PSOE in Spain and the voice of diplomacy in the EU in recent years defends as a solution that Europe assumes its own responsibility, without delegating in the US. Not surprisingly, he believes that dependence on The United States has turned Europe “In practice in A military protectorate“.
In his admission speech as a number of number in the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences And in the presence of Felipe VI, Josep Borrell He has not hesitated to ensure that “No one “can jump to 5% Investment in such fast defense “If it’s not throwing money out the window“.
In his opinion, “a form of throw money through the window I would be Build European defense on a national base with which each one increases their military capacity, yours. “
Thus, he sees as the only valid option to join forces so that “our armies are interoperable” and can Make together “the defensive action that Europe needs, No country to country“, but through a union for defense. He has done so remembering in his speech he was”five years studying“The military capacities plans of the Member States and that is why he can affirm with knowledge of the cause that this is not the way, as Efe collects.
But, that union for defense will not be done on the basis of what is “because unanimity prevents any serious union”, has considered Borrell, who has said that “We will have to invent something elseotherwise We will remain a soft powera soft power, increasingly And every time with less power based on a technological preminence that we have already lost in a world that is frankly hostile. “
Now, maybe Donald Trump “es The actor who needed us to realize that we have to have our own strength. And if we don’t have them, build them, because maybe the great ally will not be in the appointment if things get bad, “he said.
