2023-08-28 11:41:00
This context “has rather hardened”, “is getting more complicated” and “runs the risk of a weakening of the West and more particularly of our Europe”, he declared before the French ambassadors gathered in Paris. .
“We must be lucid, without being excessively pessimistic”, he noted, citing in particular the “dilution of our population”, of “our wealth in world trade” due to “the emergence of (new) great international powers”.
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“There is a gradual questioning of our international order (in which) the West had a preponderant place and still a preponderant place”, he further underlined.
This questioning results from the return of the war, particularly in Europe with the Russian offensive in Ukraine, and the rise of a “policy of resentment” from Asia to Africa, which feeds on “the anti-colonialism, reinvented or fantasized” and an “instrumentalized anti-Westernism”, he said.
The head of state also insisted on the need to “avoid a partition of the world” around the war in Ukraine, while the southern states refuse to condemn Russia. We must “avoid a narrative that would consist in saying, it’s your war as Europeans, it does not concern us”, he said.
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