風蕭蕭_Frank
以文會友
法國總統埃曼紐爾·馬克龍就西方霸權的終結發表講話
https://kritik.com.my/france-president-emannual-macron-speech-on-the-end-of-western-hegemony/
歐洲將因為相信美國的自私和狡猾政策而為其反俄政策付出沉重代價。
2022年3月4日 新聞聚合中心、社交監聽站、
歐洲將因為相信美國的自私和狡猾政策而為其反俄政策付出沉重代價。
歐洲將因為相信美國的自私和狡猾政策而為其反俄政策付出沉重代價。
法國總統內部講話一出，世界震驚！ 我強烈建議您花點時間閱讀這篇文章，因為它預言了未來可能發生的事件。 所表達的觀點完全是法國現任總統埃馬紐埃爾·馬克龍的觀點！
近日，馬克龍在內部會議上對當前國際形勢進行了總體分析。 他感歎道：“西方霸權已接近終結！”
您如何看待當今世界的權力轉移？ 馬克龍的閉門演講非常有價值。
馬克龍：
我們共同生活在這個世界上，這裏的使者比我更了解這個世界。
是的，國際秩序正在以一種全新的方式被顛覆，我相信這是我們曆史上的一次重大劇變，它對幾乎所有地區都產生了深遠的影響。
這是國際秩序的變革、地緣政治一體化、戰略重組。
是的，我必須承認，西方霸權可能即將結束。
18世紀以來，我們已經習慣了以西方霸權為基礎的國際秩序。
這是一個受啟蒙運動啟發的18世紀法國。
這是工業革命主導的19世紀英國。
這是一個從20世紀兩次世界大戰中崛起的美國。
法國、英國和美國使西方偉大了300年。
法國是文化，英國是工業，美國是戰爭。
我們已經習慣了這種偉大，它使我們對全球經濟和政治擁有絕對的主導地位。
但事情正在發生變化。
有些危機來自我們自己在西方的錯誤，有些則來自新興國家的挑戰。
在西方國家內部，美國在危機麵前做出的諸多錯誤選擇，深深動搖了我們的霸權。
需要注意的是，這不僅僅是從特朗普政府開始的，美國其他總統早在特朗普之前就做出了其他錯誤的選擇，克林頓的對華政策、布什的戰爭政策、奧巴馬的世界金融危機和量化寬鬆政策。
美國領導人的錯誤政策都是動搖西方霸權的根本性錯誤。 但另一方麵，我們卻大大低估了新興大國的崛起。
低估這些新興大國的崛起，不僅僅是兩年前，而是早在十年、二十年前。
我們從一開始就低估了他們！
必須承認，中俄兩國多年來在不同的領導風格下取得了巨大成功。
印度也正在迅速崛起為一個經濟大國，同時他也正在成為一個政治大國，中國、俄羅斯、印度，這些國家與美國、法國和英國相比。
不說別的，光是他們的政治想象力就遠遠強於今天的西方人。 當他們擁有了強大的經濟實力之後，他們開始尋找屬於自己的“哲學和文化”。
他們不再相信西方政治，而是開始追求自己的“民族文化”。 這與民主與否無關。 印度是一個民主國家，他也在做同樣的事情，尋找自己的“民族文化”。
當這些新興國家找到自己的民族文化並開始信仰它時，他們就會逐漸擺脫過去西方霸權灌輸給他們的“哲學文化”。
而這就是西方霸權終結的開始！
西方霸權的終結不在於經濟衰落，不在於軍事衰落，而在於文化衰落。
當你的價值觀無法再輸出到新興國家時，那就是你衰落的開始。
我認為這些新興國家的政治想象力比我們高。
政治想象力非常重要。 它具有很強的凝聚力內涵，能夠引發更多的政治靈感。
能否在政治上更加大膽，新興國家的政治想象力遠遠超過今天的歐洲人，這一切都深深震撼了我！！！
中國已經讓7億人擺脫貧困，未來還會有更多人擺脫貧困，但在法國，市場經濟正在以前所未有的速度加劇收入不平等。
過去一年中產階級的憤怒給法國政治秩序帶來了深刻的變化，自19世紀以來，法國的生活一直處於一種平衡之中。
個人自由、民主、富裕的中產階級，這三者是平衡法國政治的三腳架，但當中產階級不再是我們國家的基石，當中產階級認為自己的利益受到損害時，危機就誕生了 。
他們會對民主和市場體係產生根本性的懷疑。 這樣的製度還能給我更好的生活嗎？
他們有權利如此懷疑，也有權利加入激進的政治運動。
在英國，政治體係的衰落更為明顯。
英國脫歐的響亮口號“收回控製權”已經說明了一切。
人們認為自己的命運不再掌握在自己手中，因此想要“奪回控製權”。
而“奪回控製權”的直接途徑就是離開歐盟。 他們討厭歐盟，他們討厭老式的政治，他們想要一些更具政治想象力的東西。
歸根結底，過去的政治製度沒能給英國人帶來好處，甚至讓他們的生活變得越來越糟糕，但高層政治領導人卻沒有意識到這一點。
所以，他們失敗了。
至於美國，美國人雖然屬於西方陣營，但一直有著與歐洲不同的人道主義標準（隱含宗教）。
美國人對氣候問題、對平等、對社會平衡的敏感性與歐洲不同（這意味著美國的貧富差距比歐洲大得多）。
美國文明與歐洲文明之間存在著明顯的差距。 盡管美國和歐洲關係密切，但我們之間的分歧始終存在。
特朗普上台隻是放大了原本的分歧。
我必須強調，歐洲與美國不同。
當然，歐洲文明計劃不能由匈牙利天主教徒或俄羅斯東正教徒決定，但歐洲長期跟隨美國將俄羅斯驅逐出歐洲大陸也不一定是正確的。
美國需要對抗俄羅斯和歐洲，但歐洲需要嗎？
歐洲與美國合作驅逐俄羅斯，這可能是21世紀歐洲最大的地緣政治錯誤。
驅逐俄羅斯的結果是普京別無選擇，隻能擁抱中國，而這恰恰給了中俄升溫的機會。
讓我們的一個競爭對手聯合起來製造一個巨大的麻煩，這就是美國人所做的。
如果歐洲沒有驅逐俄羅斯，俄羅斯的政策絕不會如此反西方。 現在，從地緣政治角度來說，不可能給予東方大國如此大的幫助。
但歐洲的問題是軍事。
因為北約的存在，歐洲再組建一支歐洲軍隊就變得非常困難，而隻要“歐洲軍隊”不存在，歐洲就會受到美國政治秩序的控製。
可悲的是，當我與德國總理默克爾談論此事時，我們都很悲觀。 在歐洲，沒有人有能力組建一支歐洲軍隊，也沒有人有能力組建一支歐洲軍隊。 政策，給予投資。
但歐洲軍事才是製衡美國的關鍵點。 沒有歐洲軍隊，歐洲就根本沒有真正的獨立。
是的，美國是一個盟友，是我們長期的盟友，但同時，他也是一個長期綁架我們的盟友。
法國是強大的外交大國、安理會常任理事國和歐盟的核心。
將俄羅斯趕出歐洲可能絕對是一個影響深遠的戰略錯誤。
如果法國不能將俄羅斯拉回歐洲，它也將不願繼續參與，從而加劇緊張局勢並孤立俄羅斯。
目前，俄羅斯和東方大國都沒有興趣結成聯盟，但沒有人確定西方世界是否會越來越緊。
中俄還會篤定地說不結盟嗎？
我們朋友的敵人就一定是我們的敵人嗎？
俄羅斯是美國的敵人，那麽他一定是歐洲的敵人嗎？
我們需要建立歐洲自己的新信任和安全架構，因為如果我們不緩和與俄羅斯的關係，歐洲大陸就不會有和平。
美國人說，一個在武器裝備上大量投資的國家，一個人口不斷減少的國家，一個老齡化的國家。
美國人問我，我們應該害怕這個國家嗎？ 我們應該與這樣的國家和解嗎？
我問美國人，俄羅斯和加拿大交換一下位置怎麽樣？
除了經濟動蕩和地緣政治動蕩之外，我們現在正在經曆的第三大動蕩無疑是技術革命風暴。
大數據互聯網、社交媒體、人工智能，當大智能在全球化中蔓延時，信息技術的進步正在以前所未有的速度發展。
情報全球化的一個問題是情感、暴力甚至仇恨的全球化。
技術革命給我們帶來了深刻的人類學變革，也為我們創造了一個新的空間，一個需要人類重新審視、製定規則的空間。
這是世界從未觸及的新技術規則空間，也是所有人都應該認同和參與的互聯網國際秩序規則。
但在這套新規則完全建立之前，新技術革命給我們帶來的不僅僅是經濟失衡，還有人類學的階級矛盾和意識形態矛盾。
最終，它將給我們自豪的民主帶來嚴重的撕裂和不穩定。
這裏所有的使節都可以看到經濟動蕩、地緣政治動蕩、信息技術動蕩、民主動蕩。
所有這些劇變同時發生，但我們該怎麽辦？
我們現在需要做什麽？ 我們是繼續當觀眾，當評論員，還是承擔我們必須承擔的責任？
但有一點是肯定的，如果我們都失去了政治想象力，讓過去幾十年甚至幾個世紀的習慣決定了我們的策略，那麽我們……
一個共和國的總統、一個部長、一個外交官、一個士兵，這個房間裏的每個人都繼續按照過去的方式做事。
毫無疑問，我們將會“失去控製”。
而“失控”之後，等待我們的就是消失。
文明消逝，歐洲消逝，西方霸權的時刻也隨之消逝。
最終，世界將圍繞兩個極點：美國和中國，歐洲將不得不在這兩個統治者之間做出選擇。
歐洲，將會徹底失控，所以我至今隻相信一件事，那就是勇敢——敢於突破、敢於冒險的政治策略。
這種與過去的老歐洲不同的政治策略，會導致現在很多事情的失敗，國內也有大量的評論家，批評者說它不會成功。
但致命的不是評論和批評，而是“勇敢的心”和“想象力的思維”的喪失，而我認為，隻有嚐試一些勇敢和想象力的政治才能深刻體現法國的民族精神，最好的方法。
隻有法國才能重建博大精深的歐洲文明； 隻有法國能夠從歐洲戰略和國際政治的角度來考慮歐洲的生存問題。
法國精神是頑強的抵抗精神和追求不一樣的世界。 反抗精神決不會屈服於事物的必然性和適應性
這種實施是在法國人民靈魂的非凡精神中進行的，它塑造了隻有法國才能改變歐洲逐漸被“兩極”吞噬的曆史趨勢的曆史潮流。
接下來，法國將有幾個重要的議程方向。 第一個是“歐亞議程”。
法國將推動中國新絲綢之路與歐洲互聯互通戰略更好融合，但這種融合必須尊重我們的主權和規則。
十年前，我們在歐亞一體化進程中犯了一些錯誤。 歐洲在應對重大金融危機時，為了獲得援助，被迫進行私有化，減少了歐洲的部分主權。
從南邊的意大利到北邊的英國，但我們不怪聰明的中國人，隻能怪我們自己愚蠢。
此外，麵對中國的崛起，法國還必須與美國共同製定印太地區的“法國戰略”。
這是對法國歡迎中國絲綢之路戰略的“補充”。
如果我們在一處幫助了對手，那麽我們就必須在其他地方製衡它。 這是通常的政治方式。
法國必須在印太地區建立“法國影響力”，以製衡中國在該地區的力量崛起。 畢竟，法國在該地區擁有數百萬居民和近萬名士兵。
法國希望成為海上主要強國之一。
法國的第二個重要議程是優先確立歐洲主權。
我和很多人說過，歐洲主權絕不是一句空話，但我們已經犯了把主權聲音留給民族主義者的錯誤。
民族主義者絕不代表我們的主權，這是一個好詞，代表了我們民主的核心。 但如果政府失去了對一切的控製，主權就蕩然無存了。
所以民族主義者有權發出自己的聲音，但他們絕不代表歐洲主權。
幾十年來，歐洲建立了強大、友好的市場，但同時，我們也是最開放、最幼稚的。
當我們討論歐洲主權時，我們還必須非常深入地包括英國。 無論英國脫歐最終結果如何，歐洲主權都包括英國。
歐洲主權的另一個方向是國防。 關於歐洲防務，自20世紀50年代以來一直沒有任何進展，甚至被禁止討論。
但現在是時候依靠歐洲資金和歐洲軍隊與更多國防主權國家建立一項倡議了。
我認為這是幾十年來討論“歐洲國防主權”的最佳時機，這需要在座的各位使節更加努力。
歐洲主權的另一個焦點是歐洲對邊界的思考，這也將延伸到人口和移民的話題。
2015年以來歐洲經曆了前所未有的移民危機，我們必須擺脫難民應急管理製度，建立可持續的人才落地機製。
更重要的是，我們應該與國際移民組織合作，恢複我們在巴黎所做的移民過濾工作。
最後一部分是關於經濟和金融主權。
我們現在正在積極談論伊朗問題，並繼續捍衛我們對伊朗議程的主張。
但美元有其“特殊性”，即使我們決定保護伊朗，我們公司也將依賴美元前進。
請注意，我並不是說我們必須對抗美元，而是我們需要建立真正的“歐元主權”。
但這個過程太慢了，我們進展得太慢了！
而在數字貨幣的建立上，歐洲也需要重新考慮，因為數字貨幣也會影響未來的經濟主權。
重建歐洲主權、經濟主權、國防主權、邊境主權，是真正加強歐洲一體化、不受外界幹擾的必由之路。
女士們、先生們，讓我們擁有強有力、連貫的外交，在西方霸權受到挑戰的時候，我們應該發揮各自的政治想象力。
掌控歐洲人自己的命運，並將控製權歸還給我們的人民。
我期待你在外交中發揮重要作用，我對這些請求表示感謝。
我將永遠站在你們一邊，讓法國成為領導一係列重要政治問題的核心。
讓我們的使節在全世界擁有強大的代表力，捍衛我們的國家利益，超越我們的國家利益，讓我們的價值觀傳播到全世界。
我謝謝你！
共和國萬歲，法國萬歲！
伊曼紐爾·馬克龍
France President , Emannual Macron speech on the end of Western hegemony
https://kritik.com.my/france-president-emannual-macron-speech-on-the-end-of-western-hegemony/
Europe will be paying the heavy price of its anti-Russia policy for believing in America selfishness and cunning policy.
The French President’s internal speech came out, and the world was shocked! I would strongly recommend that you take your time to read through this article as it foretells the future events that are likely to take place. The opinions expressed are entirely those of the current French President Emmanuel Macron!
Recently, at an internal meeting, Macron made a general analysis of the current international situation. He sighed: “Western hegemony is nearing its end!”
How do you view the great power shift in the world today? Macron’s closed-door speech was extremely valuable.
Macron:
We live together in this world, and the envoys here know this world better than I do.
Yes, the international order is being upended in a whole new way, and I’m sure this is a major upheaval in our history, and it has far-reaching consequences in almost all regions.
It is a transformation of the international order, a geopolitical integration, and a strategic reorganization.
Yes, I must admit that Western hegemony may be coming to an end.
We have become accustomed to an international order based on Western hegemony since the 18th century.
This is an Enlightenment-inspired France from the 18th century.
This is a 19th century Britain led by the Industrial Revolution.
This is an America that emerged from the 20th century rising from two world wars.
France, the United Kingdom, and the United States have made the West great for 300 years.
France is culture, England is industry and America is war.
We are used to this greatness that gives us absolute dominance over the global economy and politics.
But things are changing.
Some crises come from our own mistakes in the West, while others come from the challenges of emerging countries.
Within Western countries, the many wrong choices the United States has made in the face of crises have deeply shaken our hegemony.
Note that this didn’t just start with the Trump administration, other presidents of the United States made other wrong choices long before Trump, Clinton’s China policy, Bush’s war policy, Obama’s world financial crisis, and quantitative easing policy.
The wrong policies of these American leaders are all fundamental mistakes that shake Western hegemony. However, on the other hand, we have greatly underestimated the rise of emerging powers.
Underestimate the rise of these emerging powers, not just two years ago, but as early as ten or twenty years ago.
We underestimated them from the beginning!
We must admit that China and Russia have achieved great success over the years under different leadership styles.
India is also rapidly emerging as an economic power, and at the same time he is also becoming a political power, China, Russia, India, these countries compare to the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Let’s not say anything else, just their political imagination is far stronger than today’s Westerners. After they have strong economic power, they start to look for their own “philosophy and culture”.
They no longer believe in Western politics, but began to pursue their own “national culture”. This has nothing to do with democracy or not. India is a democratic country, and he is also doing the same, looking for his own “national culture”.
When these emerging nations find their own national culture and begin to believe in it, they will gradually get rid of the “philosophical culture” that Western hegemony has instilled in them in the past.
And this is the beginning of the end of Western hegemony!
The end of Western hegemony does not lie in economic decline, not in military decline, but in cultural decline.
When your values ??can no longer be exported to emerging countries, that is the beginning of your decline.
I think the political imagination of these emerging countries is higher than ours.
Political imagination is very important. It has strong cohesive connotations and can lead to more political inspiration.
Whether we can be more daring in politics, the political imagination of emerging countries far exceeds that of Europeans today, all this deeply shocked me!!!
China has lifted 700 million people out of poverty, and more will be lifted out of poverty in the future, but in France, the market economy is increasing income inequality at an unprecedented rate.
The anger of the middle class in the past year has brought about profound changes in the French political order, and since the 19th century, French life has been in a kind of balance.
Personal liberty, democracy, a wealthy middle class, these three are the tripods that balance the politics of France, but the crisis is born when the middle class is no longer the cornerstone of our country, when the middle class thinks its interests are being compromised .
They will have fundamental doubts about democracy and the market system. Can such a system still give me a better life?
They have the right to be so skeptical and have the right to join a radical political movement.
In the UK, the fall of the political system is even more pronounced.
The resounding slogan of Brexit, Take back control, says it all.
The people believe that their own destiny is no longer in their own hands, so they want to “take back control”.
And the direct way to “take back control” is to leave the EU. They hate the EU, they hate the old-fashioned politics, and they want something more politically imaginative.
In the final analysis, the political system of the past failed to benefit the British, and even made their lives worse and worse, but the political leaders at the top did not realize this.
So, they failed.
As for the United States, although Americans belong to the Western camp, they have always had different humanitarian standards (implying religion) from Europe.
Americans’ sensitivity to climate issues, to equality, to social balance, does not exist in the same way as Europe does (implying that the gap between rich and poor in the US is much larger than in Europe).
There is a clear gap between American civilization and European civilization. Even though the United States and Europe are deeply aligned, our differences have always existed.
Trump’s coming to power just magnified the original differences.
I must stress that Europe is different from the United States.
Of course, the European civilization plan cannot be decided by Hungarian Catholics or Russian Orthodox Christians, but Europe’s long-term follow-up with the United States to expel Russia from the European continent is not necessarily correct.
The United States needs to confront Russia and Europe, but does Europe need it?
Europe cooperates with the United States to expel Russia, which may be the biggest geopolitical mistake of Europe in the 21st century.
The result of expelling Russia is that Putin has no choice but to embrace China, and this just gives China and Russia a chance to warm up.
Let one of our competitors combine with another to create a huge trouble, which is what the Americans do.
If Europe hadn’t expelled Russia, Russia’s policies would never have been so anti-Western. Now, in terms of geopolitics, it is impossible to give so much help to the great powers of the East.
But Europe’s problem is the military.
Because of the existence of NATO, it becomes very difficult for Europe to form another European army, and as long as the “European army” does not exist, Europe will be controlled by the political orders of the United States.
Sadly, when I talked about this with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, we were all pessimistic. In Europe, no one has the ability to form a European army, and no one has the ability to form a European army. Policy, give investment.
But the European military is the key point to check and balance the United States. Without the European military, Europe would have no real independence at all.
Yes, the United States is an ally, our long-term ally, but at the same time, he is also an ally who has been kidnapping us for a long time.
France is a powerful diplomatic power, a permanent member of the Security Council and the heart of the European Union.
Taking Russia out of Europe may be an absolutely far-reaching strategic mistake.
If France cannot pull Russia back into Europe, it will also be reluctant to continue its engagement, fueling tensions and isolating Russia.
At present, neither Russia nor that eastern power has any interest in forming an alliance, but no one is sure if the Western world is pressing harder and harder.
Will China and Russia still say with certainty that we will not form an alliance?
Is the enemy of our friend necessarily our enemy?
Russia is the enemy of the United States, so must he be the enemy of Europe?
We need to build Europe’s own new trust and security architecture, because if we don’t ease relations with Russia, there will be no peace on the continent.
Americans say a country that invests heavily in weapons and equipment, a declining demographic, an aging country.
Americans ask me, should we be afraid of this country? Should we reconcile with such a country?
I asked the Americans, how about swapping the positions of Russia and Canada?
In addition to economic turmoil and geopolitical turmoil, the third major turmoil we are now experiencing is undoubtedly the technological revolution turmoil.
Big data Internet, social media, artificial intelligence, when big intelligence spreads out in globalization, the progress of information technology is developing at an unprecedented speed.
One problem with the globalization of intelligence is the globalization of emotion, violence, and even hatred.
The technological revolution has brought us profound anthropological changes, and it has also created a new space for us, a space that requires human beings to re-examine and formulate rules.
This is a new technology rule space that the world has never touched, and it is also a rule of the Internet international order that everyone should agree with and participate in.
But before this new set of rules is fully established, the new technological revolution has brought us not only economic imbalances, but also anthropological class contradictions and ideological contradictions.
Ultimately, it will bring heavy tearing and instability to our proud democracy.
All the envoys here can see that economic turmoil, geopolitical turmoil, information technology turmoil, and democratic turmoil.
All these upheavals are happening at the same time, but what do we do?
What do we need to do now? Are we going to continue to be viewers, to be commentators, or to take on the responsibilities we have to take?
But one thing is for sure, if we all lose our political imagination and let the habits of the past decades or even centuries dictate our strategies, then we…
A president of a republic, a minister, a diplomat, a soldier, everyone in this room continues to do it the way it was in the past.
That is for sure, we’re going to “lose control.”
And after “out of control”, what awaits us is to disappear.
Civilization fades away, Europe fades away, and the moment of Western hegemony fades away with it.
Ultimately, the world will revolve around two poles: America and China, and Europe will have to choose between these two rulers.
Europe, will lose control completely, so I believe in only one thing so far, and that is bravery – the political strategy of daring to break through and take risks.
This kind of political strategy, which is different from the old Europe in the past, will lead to the failure of many things now, and there are also a large number of commentators in the country, and critics say that it will not succeed.
But what is fatal is not the comments and criticisms, but the loss of “brave heart” and “imaginative thinking”, and I think that only by trying some brave and imaginative politics can profoundly reflect the French national spirit, the best method.
Only France can re-establish a profound European civilization; only France can consider the issue of European survival from the perspective of European strategy and international politics.
The French spirit is a tenacious spirit of resistance and the pursuit of a different world. The spirit of resistance will never succumb to the inevitability and adaptability of affairs
This kind of implementation is carried out in the extraordinary spirit of the French people’s soul, and it has shaped the historical trend that only France can change the historical trend that Europe is gradually being swallowed by “two poles”.
Next, France will have several important agenda directions. The first is the “Eurasian Agenda”.
France will promote a better integration of China’s new Silk Road with the European Connectivity Strategy, but this integration must be done with respect for our sovereignty and rules.
Ten years ago, we made some mistakes in the integration of Europe and Asia. When Europe was dealing with the major financial crisis, in order to obtain assistance, it was forced to carry out privatization to reduce some of Europe’s sovereignty.
From Italy in the south to England in the north, but we don’t blame smart Chinese, we can only blame ourselves for being stupid.
In addition, in the face of the rise of China, France must also establish a “French strategy” with the United States in the Indo-Pacific region.
This is a “supplement” to France’s strategy of welcoming China’s Silk Road.
If we help our opponent in one place, then we have to check and balance it in other places. This is the usual way of politics.
France must establish “French influence” in the Indo-Pacific region to balance the rise of China’s power in the region. After all, France has millions of residents and nearly 10,000 soldiers in the region.
France wants to become one of the main maritime powers in the sea.
The second important agenda of France is to give priority to the establishment of European sovereignty.
I have talked to many people that European sovereignty is by no means an empty word, but we have already made the mistake of leaving the voice of sovereignty to the nationalists.
Nationalists by no means represent our sovereignty, which is a good word, and represents the core of our democracy. But if the government loses control over everything, there will be nothing left for sovereignty.
So nationalists have the right to have their voices heard, but they in no way represent European sovereignty.
For decades, Europe has built a strong and friendly market, but at the same time, we are also the most open and naive.
And when we discuss European sovereignty, we must also include the United Kingdom very deeply. Regardless of the final outcome of Brexit, European sovereignty includes the United Kingdom.
The other direction of European sovereignty is national defense. Regarding European defense, there has been no progress since the 1950s, and it is even forbidden to discuss.
But it’s time to build an initiative with more national defense sovereigns, relying on European funds and European armies.
I think this is the best time in decades to discuss “European defense sovereignty”, which requires all the envoys here to work harder.
Another focus of European sovereignty is Europe’s thinking about borders, which will also extend to the topic of population and immigration.
As Europe has experienced an unprecedented migration crisis since 2015, we must move away from the emergency management regime for refugees in order to create a sustainable talent landing mechanism.
More importantly, we should work with the International Organization for Migration to revive the immigration filtering work we did in Paris.
The last part is about economic and financial sovereignty.
We are now actively talking about Iran and continue to defend our claim to the Iranian agenda.
But the U.S. dollar has its “speciality”, even if we decide to protect Iran, our company will depend on the U.S. dollar to move forward.
Note, I’m not saying we have to fight the dollar, but we need to build a real “sovereignty of the euro”.
But this process is too slow, we are progressing too slowly!
And in the establishment of digital c, Europe also needs to reconsider, because digital currency will also affect future economic sovereignty.
Reconstructing European sovereignty, economic sovereignty, national defense sovereignty, and border sovereignty is the only way to truly strengthen European integration without interference from other countries outside.
Ladies and gentlemen, let us have a strong and coherent diplomacy, and at a time when Western hegemony is being challenged, we should use our respective political imaginations.
Take control of Europeans’ own destiny and return control to our people.
I count on you to play an important role in diplomacy, and I am grateful for these requests.
I will always be by your side to keep France at the heart of leading a range of important political issues.
Make our envoys have a strong representative power all over the world to defend our national interests, surpass our national interests, and let our values ??spread all over the world.
I thank you!
Long live the Republic, Long live France!
- Emmanuel Macron
