Because Europe needs Draghi’s radicalism
The challenges of the European Union and Mario Draghi's theses. Guiglia's notebook
Competitiveness and the single market are on the agenda. But it is Ukraine and the Middle East that have forced the extraordinary meeting of the European Council. Which in exceptional times prepares exceptional measures, starting from the "urgency to intensify the provision of military assistance, in particular air defense capabilities", as explained in the text of the Prime Minister, Charles Michel, sent to the Heads of State and government of the 27 countries to draw their full attention to the war on their doorstep.
THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND THE CRISIS OF THE SINGLE MARKET
An inevitable reminder, but accelerated by Iran's attack on Israel with drones and missiles, which were neutralized precisely by the "air defense" that the United States with the help of Great Britain and France, and with the authorization of the Arab countries to fly over their airspace, they assured the Jewish State, thus avoiding the worst.
This decisive military support is the same that Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine attacked by Russia and bombed for over two years, has long been calling for so as not to succumb.
“Let the allies defend us as with Israel”, is his last cry of pain and controversy, because Zelensky, taking his cue from the effectiveness of the anti-aircraft and flights that intercepted, hit and destroyed the Iranian offensive, did not failed to point out that Tel Aviv “has allies in the skies, not on paper.”
Europe is now running for cover, but it must also face another anomaly denounced by the former Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, in the report on the future of the single market drawn up for today's meeting, which will be followed tomorrow by a NATO summit.
Letta reveals that 78% of the EU's military supplies come from non-EU countries. “A shame,” he accuses. “We need defense to scale up on the industrial side.” The lack of growth obviously also affects the political strategy of the Union.
MARIO DRAGHI TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION? OR TO THE COUNCIL?
But, to relaunch the EU, the candidacy, born in German and especially French political-economic circles, of Mario Draghi as the next president of the Commission, of the Council or in any case in a top European role, is gaining more and more traction.
It is a candidacy that benefits the Italian national interest and the European choice to defend Ukraine, a choice that saw Draghi among the first and most convinced architects. But this perspective also reflects the need for that "radical change" in the EU called for by our former Prime Minister and former head of the ECB, to keep up with new challenges.
Vladimir Putin's military challenge, Xi Jinping's commercial challenge and America's economic-political challenge that will come after the presidential elections in November.
A united, strong and aware Europe is what Draghi is calling for and in the EU they are now looking to him. The “air defense capability” for Kiev being examined by the Council goes in this direction.
(Published in L'Arena di Verona, Il Giornale di Vicenza, Bresciaoggi and Gazzetta di Mantova)
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/rilancio-europa-radicalita-draghi/ on Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:43:38 +0000.