Former French PM Dominique de Villepin to a student who asks him if the EU will ever be independent from the US

Former French PM Dominique de Villepin to a student who asks him if the EU will ever be independent from the US. In his response he calls the current situation one of “tutelage of the U.S. over Europe“, mostly via NATO whose “European pillar“ he calls “incredibly weak“. He says this is a “gigantic issue“ because Europe cannot “hope to live between the US and China“ if it doesn’t gain its independence and its “political sovereignty“. In particular he says that in the current situation it makes no sense for Global South countries to speak to Europe “if the decisions are to be made in Washington“. EU enlargement “will only make the situation ever worse and will reinforce even more this link of dependence“. He was “very struck“ in a previous EU enlargement to see that “most states joined the EU in fact for the purpose of strengthening their links with NATO and that their primary objective was NATO... In their mind it was the protection, the umbrella given by the US.“ Source: Bertrand o... Source: Slavyangrad