- The future of the EU and NATO depends on their ability to adapt.
- Kaliňák considers the question of the future of these organizations to be fundamental.
- The fundamental question is whether the EU will become a great power with strong security interests.
The European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) have a future if they are able to adapt to the current conditions. This was announced in the plenary session of the National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic by Deputy Prime Minister a Minister of Defense Robert Kaliňák (Smer-SD) during Thursday’s question hour. He described the question of the future of these two organizations as probably the most important question these days. According to him, the EU will only survive if it returns to its foundations.
“My personal guess is that some form may change at times, but both organizations have a future when they are able to adapt to the current conditions,” said Kaliňák in the meeting hall, where he spoke for the absent Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD).
According to the Deputy Prime Minister, the EU cannot rely on a unilateral and “mostly not completely rational output of our foreign policy”. for example, in the form of statements by the head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallasová.
“We have to respect the fact that there are great powers that have their own power interests. It is against international law, it is clearly bleeding the UN. We will support it, we are trying to be a non-permanent member of the Security Council, so that international law will prevail again, because small states have no other chance.” emphasized Kaliňák.
The question, according to him, is whether the EU will work in such a way that it will be the fourth power and will start to assert its security interests as well, it will have enough of its own resources and will be able to export its goods well and cheaply.
