I really don’t understand this piece.
It’s almost like it was written today. But it was written 3 years ago. I’m going to copy most of the article below and you let me know if this isn’t WEIRD.
“Emmanuel Macron has unveiled plans for the UK, Ukraine and other non-EU countries to team up as part of a new “European political community”.
In a speech to mark Europe Day, the French president said that leaders had a “historic obligation” to form a “new European organisation” that “would allow democratic European nations to find a new space for political cooperation, security, cooperation in energy, transport, investment, infrastructure [and] the movement of people”. ( Historic…meaning The Book of Daniel?)
Joining the group “would not necessarily prejudge future EU membership”, he told the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Monday, and “nor would it be closed to those who left it”.
New world order
Politico reported that “virtually no specifics about the proposal” were provided by Macron, who was inaugurated for his second term as president on Saturday. And the Élysée Palace “did not provide any fact sheets or other policy briefs as it has on previous occasions when Macron has laid out bold prescriptions for Europe”.
Instead, he “largely seemed to be improvising”, the news site added, “apparently even catching some of his own advisers by surprise”.
The French leader outlined a “political community” that would be open to “democratic European nations adhering to its core values in areas such as political cooperation, security, cooperation in energy, transport, investment of infrastructure or circulation of people”, said Reuters.
In a “wink to Ukraine”, the news site continued, Macron made clear that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s goal of joining the EU could “take several years” and that Kyiv needed to be given “some hope in the short-term”.
But under Macron’s plan, countries such as the UK and Ukraine could “choose their level of integration with Brussels”, the paper continued. The proposal “has echoes” of his previous calls for a “multi-speed Europe” made up of “concentric circles”, and would probably leave “the UK on the outer ring of the new organisation”.
The “organisation that Macron described sounded a lot like the EU”, said Politico. But in “proposing new tiers of political affiliation” with the bloc, he also risks “calling into question some of the most treasured, cherished and unshakeable pillars of the union, including a balance of rights and responsibilities that entails fealty to EU law and payments into a common budget”.