Laurent LANQUAR-CASTIEL revisits his youthful geopolitical topics, responding to the international context, particularly in the Middle East (Syria, Iran, Israel, and Palestine): “Europe must assert itself as a major international power, a guarantor of peace, taking advantage of the American diplomacy’s withdrawal on the international scene. The current global context is conducive to this European assertion.”
According to him, “the obsequious reverences of President Macron, as well as the German rigidity and economic approach, have proven ineffective. This is the limit of the nation-states’ diplomacy.”
Indeed, the recent parade of European diplomatic visits to Washington did not manage to influence the dangerous American position on the nuclear agreement with Iran, which jeopardizes companies working in the Middle East and are subject to the dollar, the international currency.
“Europeans have a major card to play in this context, we need a federal defense and a European foreign minister with the stature of Joschka FISCHER. The European Union was built to ensure peace, against nationalism. Thus, it is destined to take advantage of its status to manage conflicts with its pacifist legitimacy. Europe must simultaneously reject the hegemony of the American currency by promoting the Euro for international exchanges. For this, we need European diplomacy.”
Regarding the Israeli-Palestinian situation, Laurent LANQUAR-CASTIEL, a signatory of the European call for Reason (JCall), continues: “Rather than merely lamenting the relocation of the American embassy to Jerusalem (West) without acting or proposing, Europe could propose to establish, on both sides of the green line, a dual embassy in Israel and Palestine, bringing together member states. This embassy would symbolize the future border between Israel and Palestine, as only the two-state solution can guarantee lasting peace: it would then be a sign of an alternative, audible, and powerful European diplomacy.”
