Joseph Borrell He has many qualities after a lifetime dedicated to politics and diplomacy. But if something stands out, it is its clarity. When he speaks, he speaks. And this Thursday he spoke—and how!—about his ‘former boss’. Because he former high representative of the EU has been expanded against the current president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
The reason, that Von der Leyen has allowed the participation of a European commissioner the ‘diplomatic-financial’ conglomerate created by Donald Trump for the area.
Borrell explained in statements to EFE that “to me It doesn’t seem like a good decision to me.“If the answer had remained there it would be no more than correct, but the former head of European diplomacy has gone much further in his words after receive the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun awarded by the Japanese ambassador to Spain.
“But I didn’t expect anything less from Von der Leyenwhich we all know what foot fits: she is a convinced Atlanticist and a militant zionist; and so? It is not a disqualifier, it is the description of a reality“he added
At Trump’s big debate ‘table’, the European Commissioner for the Mediterranean, Dubravka Suicadesignated by the Commission to participate in the inaugural event. Brussels clarifies that his presence does not imply that he is a member of the controversial Board, in which .
Joseph Borrell has admitted that the Peace Board has the support of the UN Security Council, but it does not stop consider it “a nineteenth-century invention where one person, one country, assumes the direction of international affairs without the Palestinians, who are the only ones who should really be there.”
For the Spanish politician, the situation of a world where “force seems to be the only reason“and where currently the one who exercises it is the US disproportionately, it is something to regret. And it has put the focus on scenarios that are currently in doubt.
“Let’s hope things don’t get any worse, but what is happening in Cubareducing the Cuban population to hunger and extreme poverty, with the bombings that already took place… They are violations of international lawbut there are those who believe they are above it,” said Borrell when asked about the possibility of a US attack on Iran.
The former high representative of the EU has assured that “Trump is a danger to global stability“and regretted that Europe does not raise its voice more to denounce it and say “that a world without rules is the law of the jungle, the law of the strongest.”
