As Greece prepare to pull out of Europe, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has slammed the EU, saying that it needs to stop viewing itself as a “hub of the universe”, and observed that the Ukraine crisis had “opened a wound in the heart of Europe“.
Speaking at the International Economic Forum, he criticises Europe’s over inflated ego, saying “the world differs from what it was before. We in Europe had an illusion for a long time of literally being a hub of the universe, as a center of the world and continued to see and rely only on our direct surroundings”.
Hinting at a possible alliance with Russia, the Prime Minister added that “new powers” were playing a “more important role on an economic and geopolitical level”.
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Rt.com reports:
International relations are getting more and more multipolar, Tsipras said, referring to the role of the G8, the G20, regional cooperation in Asia and the BRICS partnership.
“The Eurasian [Economic] Union is a new formation of regional integration and is a potential example of new sources of wealth production, benefits and new economic powers,” the Greek PM said.
He also said that the “vicious circle“ of western sanctions triggered by the Ukrainian crisis must end.
“The crisis in Ukraine has opened a new wound in the heart of Europe, a wound of instability,” Tsipras said. “And this is a very bad sign for international relations because instead of prosperity and economic cooperation in the region, we see processes leading to war, militarization, and sanctions.”
The European Union “should find its way back to its statutory principles: solidarity, democracy [and] social justice,” Tsipras said. “By sticking to policies of austerity, and policies which harm social cohesion, which aggravate the recession, this is impossible.”
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
Er..! Who attacked who in Crimea? Greece the new EuSSR model-I don’t think so.
Er..! Who attacked who in Crimea? Greece the new EuSSR model-I don’t think so.