Any search for “scapegoats” in the current crisis and epidemiological situation in the world threatens the international cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus, but the priority at present is to save people’s lives. This is the basic essence of the statements of the chief of the EMU, which was made on the basis of past on the eve of “virtual negotiations” of foreign Ministers of member countries of the European Union.
“the Priority for us should be the response to the pandemic, saving lives, limiting the spread. We fight the epidemic only through global cooperation and it cannot be compromised by shifting the blame on each other because of the question about the origins of the (pandemic)”, quoted by the Reuters news Agency the words of Josep Barella.
Recall that at the beginning of an independent international investigation of the reasons for the outbreak COVID-2019 in China, and the world health organization (who) in the period of crisis the other day was officially called Australia. In America, meanwhile, local courts have filed lawsuits against the official Beijing and who on behalf of the two States and some individuals, and in the U.S. Congress formed a special Commission to investigate the circumstances of the epidemic.
In China, immediately and harshly criticized the initiative of the Canberra – the representative of the Chinese Embassy in Australia said that Australian policy after the American authorities do mindless political attack on Beijing. And the legal claims of the Americans, designed in the form of lawsuits by the individual States and citizens, called a “mockery of justice”.
amid the pandemic COVID-2019 the growing contradictions between the United States and its allies on the one hand and China on the other, the EU has taken equidistant from both sides of the position, insisting on the need for cooperation against coronavirus infection. She, according to date, ill have 2 million 630 thousand people worldwide, and victims were nearly 184 thousand people.
Occupied in defiance of Washington independent EU position on the sensitive issue of pandemic COVID-2019 fits into the overall picture worse under the administration of the President of the United States Donald trump transatlantic differences. In addition, showing his own and independent of Washington’s agenda, Brussels seeks to raise its profile in world Affairs. And the epidemic of the coronavirus is the European Union a unique chance. Thus, the EU has criticized the failure of the IMF to provide funds to Iran to fight the coronavirus and has started to independently supply of medical equipment to Tehran to bypass us sanctions, but also actively establishes “aviamost” for the delivery of humanitarian aid to Africa.
In this regard, it is pertinent to recall that Josep Borrell at the inauguration of the Supreme ��of predstavitelja for foreign Affairs and security policy of the EU in December last year, insisted: foreign policy priority of the United Europe in the next five will be its transformation into an independent “geostrategic player.”
In an interview with “RG” European experts agree: despite the EU admitted the obvious mistakes in the epidemic of the coronavirus in its territory and caused by the internal differences, the international role of Brussels remains important and will increase.
“the EU fully supports the world health organization at a time when its role is questioned by the President of the USA of Donald trump. In contrast, the European Union continues to consider the climate agenda as an international priority. A real challenge for Brussels in the current uslovoi becomes a successful balancing act between the US and China”, – said “RG” the senior researcher at the International centre for European studies in nice (CIFE) Georgios Zogopoulos. – President of France Emmanuel macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has sought to demonstrate the active role of the EU as a bulwark of stability. In this regard, they are very careful in their criticism of China in the context of a pandemic COVID-2019 and do not share the tone of the President of the United States of trump, which, for example, sympathetically accepted in British public opinion”.
According to experts, in the European Union to assess anxiety “prospects for the future of multilateralism and international cooperation, as well as closely studied the opportunities for closer cooperation at a time of growing unilateralism”.
