Draghi: “Europe must choose. Become a federation to be a power. The global order is dead, the threat is what will replace it”

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  1. All those who today find themselves squeezed between the United States and China, only Europeans have the option of becoming a true power themselves.

    We have to decide: do we simply remain a large market, subject to the priorities of others? Or do we take the necessary steps to become a power?” Former Prime Minister Mario Draghi said this while receiving an honorary degree in Leuven, Belgium, emphasizing that to become a power, “Europe must move from confederation to federation.”
    “Where Europe has federated-on trade, competition, the single market, monetary policy-we are respected as a power and negotiate as a single entity. We see this today in the successful trade agreements negotiated with India and Latin America,” he stressed.

    “The now defunct global order did not fail because it was founded on an illusion,” but “the collapse of this order is not in itself the threat. A world with less trade and weaker rules would be painful, but Europe would be able to adapt. The real threat is what will replace it.” Europe has before it “a future in which it risks becoming, at the same time, subordinate, divided and deindustrialised”. Draghi stressed that “a Europe unable to defend its interests will not be able to preserve its values for long.” “By acting together, we will rediscover something that has long been dormant: our pride, our self-confidence, our confidence in our future. And it is on this foundation that Europe will be built.”

    “Consider Greenland. The decision to resist rather than settle required Europe to make a real strategic assessment: mapping our levers, identifying our tools, and reflecting on the consequences of the escalation. The will to act imposed clarity on the ability to act.” “By standing together in the face of a direct threat, Europeans have discovered a solidarity that previously seemed unattainable. This shared determination was reflected in public opinion in a way that no final communiqué from a summit could have achieved,” he stressed.

  2. Not wrong. I personaly will never travel to the US again and wants nothing to do with them ever again.
    Damage is done. 🤷‍♂️

  4. As usual – someone has to take the lead. Start with France and Germany and maybe Italy. If they show the rest of Europe that it works, others will follow.

  6. He is not wrong.

    Hard pill to swallow, but a pill that is needed.

  7. Unfortunately, small or less affluent countries resist the transition to a Federation not because they fail to see the threats from the US or China, but because they fear becoming once again a backwater province that can be ignored. That’s precisely what happened when the USSR was the hegemon in Central and Eastern Europe.

  8. EU: Best I can do is continue to take in unskilled immigrants

  9. everything Draghi wants can be achieved without using the word Federation, lord above has he a diplomatic brain cell in his body?

  10. France and Germany alone amount to 1/3 of EU population and GDP. Let’s first see a federation between these two. 

  12. Fifteen years ago, I laughed at federalist ideas and burgeoning movements. Today, I wish it were already a reality. And I’m not even a citizen of the EU.

    Get your act together, Europeans, and take the lead. At least once in your history.

  14. While I agree with him, a federation means everyone has to give up some sovereignty and power. We (smaller EU members) do not want to be absorbed by the largest EU states and become the equivalent of a municipality for them.

  15. It’s their own fault that we gave up our colonies for absolutely nothing.

  16. 15-20% of Draghi’s reforms have been implemented already. More on the way.
    But treaty reform is needed as well to really make a great leap.

  19. It is really that simple: federalise and see if we can shake our differences or be divided and be individually subjugated one way or another.

    Naturally I’d vote the former. I see no benefit, none whatsoever, in the second option.

  20. I will always stand behind this, what some still consider a controversial point, point I gained from personal experience and observation as an EU citizen who exercised her right to live and work in other EU countries from a young age, and worked and became friends with other EU citizens who did the same: we will never be united without agreeing on a shared second official language for bureacracy and business purposes (plus for defense), and that has to be English, our own English, we have to claim a European version of English, make it our own.

  21. SuperMario indeed. Federated Europe is, given the actual geopolitical environment, the only way forward, it’s going to be hard to implement as long as we refuse to realilze all opposing actor are on Putin’s payroll, or such dumbfucks he has no need to compensate them.
    We are at war on the eastern front, and we just lost the US as partner, it’s time to move our collective asses.

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