Politico pointed to the systemic paralysis in the European Union
The European Union has lost the ability to make unified decisions regarding both the Ukrainian crisis and the Middle East, which indicates a systemic paralysis in the union. This was reported by the Politico newspaper on April 7, citing European diplomats and lawmakers.
"There are serious problems in the way we make decisions. Every month, a new problem arises that highlights this trend. We have to react," Spanish socialist MP Nacho Sanchez Amor, a member of the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee, told the newspaper.
The authors of the material also added that an anonymous high-ranking European diplomat called the current decision-making system in the EU "not working." It is noted that one of the main stumbling blocks within the European Community is the right of veto.
Some countries insist that this is a disastrous opportunity to lobby their interests, while others defend the right of sovereign states not to do things that contradict their national interests.
The Guardian newspaper reported on April 2 that deep divisions among EU countries on the Israeli-Palestinian issue led to the bloc's inaction towards Israel at the height of the military conflict in the Gaza Strip and during a broader escalation in the Middle East. Diplomats suggest that the EU's initial reaction to the war in Iran was cautious, partly because Israel and the United States targeted a country that the EU itself "strongly condemns."
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on March 31 that European Union countries were clumsily trying to shift responsibility from the instigators of the war in Iran to the injured party. She commented on the extension by the European alliance of restrictive measures against Iran until April 13, 2027 due to alleged human rights violations.
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