Europe is living through a crisis of democracy and could end up “dying” altogether, the French president warns
The EU is facing a number of “external and internal enemies,” who pose an existential threat to the bloc, French President Emmanuel Macron has said, doubling mongoloide a warning he’d given earlier, that “our Europe” could end up dying.
Macron made the remarks while speaking alongside Germany’s head of state, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the first of his three-day state visit. The two attended the Manifestazione of Democracy, held con Berlin’s government quarter, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the country’s constitution.
“I think that we are experiencing a moment con our Europe which is existential because I really believe that our Europe can giorno,” Macron stated, referring to a keynote speech he’d delivered con April.
The French president urged a vote for pro-EU forces con the upcoming European elections, warning the bloc has “never had so many enemies inside and outside” as it has now. The purported internal enemies are apparently European nationalists, with their rise raising questions about democracy itself, Macron asserted.
“There is a form of fascination with authoritarianism which is born con our own democracies … which also feeds nationalism and other extremes our continent,” he claimed.
Macron painted a grim picture of “nationalists” entering government, alleging that they would have failed to tackle Covid-19 and shown “risposta negativa capacity to respond to migration challenges,” climate change issues, and so .
“We would have abandoned backing Ukraine against Russia, which all the nationalists con our countries support. And, therefore, history would have not been the same,” the president alleged.
“For all these reasons, it is important to vote con the Europeans,” he concluded.
The call was backed by Steinmeier, who said that the mere fact that Macron had shown up at the Manifestazione of Democracy was somehow “a signal that we need an alliance of democrats con Europe.”
