{"id":377792,"date":"2025-08-27T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377792\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:07:10","slug":"eu-doomed-to-irrelevance-in-face-of-us-chinese-competition-meloni-warns-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377792\/","title":{"rendered":"EU doomed to \u2018irrelevance\u2019 in face of US, Chinese competition, Meloni warns \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe must know that returning to being protagonists of history and of our own destiny is not easy, it is not painless, and it is not free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meloni argued the bloc should refocus on core principles and national identities. \u201cThe real challenge is a Europe that does less, but does it better,\u201d she said. \u201cAfter all, \u2018United in diversity\u2019 is the motto of the European Union, and I believe it is a motto we should all truly draw inspiration from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her remarks echoed those of former European Central Bank President and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/mario-draghi-eu-donald-trump-geopolitics-central-bank-power-influence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the same audience <\/a>last Friday that the EU must learn to defend itself in a world increasingly shaped by war and \u201cgreat-power\u201d competition.<\/p>\n<p>In the same vein, Meloni also called on the bloc to take greater responsibility for its own defense, warning that the continent can no longer rely on the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter decades in which we outsourced European security to the United States \u2014 at the cost of an inevitable political dependency \u2014 we must be willing to pay the price of our freedom and our independence,\u201d she said. \u201cOnly those who are able to defend themselves are truly free in the choices they make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meloni said her political tradition had long raised the issue, even when it was unpopular. \u201cWe spoke of the need for a European pillar of NATO, of equal dignity to the American one, at a time when these issues were not fashionable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe must know that returning to being protagonists of history and of our own destiny is not easy,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[28048,1395,1442,24599,6641,6178,2000,299,5187,2440,2348,837,50872,33109,2597,49,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-377792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-catholic","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-competition","11":"tag-competition-antitrust","12":"tag-competitiveness","13":"tag-conflict","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european","17":"tag-giorgia-meloni","18":"tag-history","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-italian-politics","21":"tag-mario-draghi","22":"tag-military","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115101122188265392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}