Ukraine: Solidarity and Sovereignty.
Sovereigntists and nationalists have shot themselves in the foot! March10, 2022 Putin’s unilateral armed aggression and phantasmal but evocative rhetoric of “denazification” against Ukraine have contributed decisively to the realization in Europe of the need for unwavering EU solidarity so that its Members can share real “European sovereignty” instead of pretending to exercise a “national sovereignty” that has become visibly phoney. President Macron in particular, but also many other political leaders, have emphasized the painful sacrifices that citizens must be prepared to make as well as the high financial costs to be incurred that will have to be shared fairly by protecting first and foremost the weakest segments of the population. At the same time, the sovereigntist speeches of the…
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