MONACO DI BAVIERA (GERMANY) (ITALPRESS) – Between Europe and the United States “a fracture has been opened”, while NATO is no longer an alliance “which is to be granted for granted”. With these words the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, opened the work of the Conference on Security in Munich. The speech of the landlord, in the most anticipated meeting of the year on defence and safety issues, immediately faced with decision the theme of relations between the two shores
and the Atlantic. “Chairman J. D. Vance told him here in Monaco a year ago, and he was right. The cultural battle of the Maga movement is not ours,” said Merz recalling the “distants” accumulated in this last year, as the freedom of speech “that ends when it is directed against human dignity”, or as economic protectionism, which is opposed to the free exchange still promoted by Europe.
“We are faithful to climate and oms agreements,” he recalled to emphasize the contrast with the United States also in the approach to international conventions. And in this regard, also the transatlantic alliance according to Merz “was rebuilt on concrete basis” because “it is indispensable”. Both sides of the Atlantic must “strengthen” the trust at the base of the alliance, which can no longer be “given for granted”, especially in a world where “the international order is on the brink of destruction”, in an age defined as that “of the great powers”, and in which the war in Ukraine, according to Merz, is “an example” of all this.
(ITALPRESS)
